Convicted but Innocent : Wrongful Conviction and Public Policy Book

	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
1	With Apologies to the Prisoner	1
	Defining the Convicted Innocents	10
	Where Doubt Remains	13
	Declared Innocent, and Still Incarcerated	16
2	Causes Celebres	21
	A Nineteenth-Century Case: The Dreyfus Affair	24
	The Scottsboro Boys	28
	The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping	29
	The Sad Saga of Isidore Zimmerman	32
	Randall Dale Adams: Injustice in Dallas	33
	"Ivan the Terrible," or a Terrible Case of Mistaken Identity?	46
3	How Could This Have Happened?: The Causes and Prevalence of Wrongful Conviction	53
	How Does It Happen?	66
	Eyewitness Error	66
	Prosecutorial and Police Misconduct and Errors	70
	Plea Bargaining	73
	Community Pressure for Conviction	75
	Inadequacy of Counsel	76
	Accusations Against the Innocent by the Guilty	77
	Criminal Records	79
	Race as a Factor	80
4	What Did They Really See?: The Problems of Eyewitness Identification	83
	Psychological Factors	87
	Systemic Factors	93
	Societal and Cultural Factors	98
5	False Confessions, Miranda Notwithstanding	110
	The Bradley Cox Case	123
6	Wrongful Conviction and Public Policy: What Can Be Done?	142
	Crime Control Versus Due Process	143
	What Is the Meaning of Wrongful Conviction?	146
	Reducing the Incidence of Wrongful Conviction	150
	Identifying and Exonerating Convicted Innocents	153
	Compensating and Reintegrating Convicted Innocents	155
	Capital Punishment: The Irreversible Error	160
	References	162
	Cases	167
	Index	169
	About the Authors	179