When Law Fails: Making Sense of Miscarriages of Justice Book

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. Austin Sarat 1

Part I On the Meaning and Significance of Miscarriages of Justice

1 The Case of "Death for a Dollar Ninety-Five": Miscarriages of Justice and Constructions of American Identity Mary L. Dudziak 25

2 When Law Fails: History, Genius, and Unhealed Wounds after Tulsa's Race Riot Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. 50

3 Margins of Error Robert Weisberg 70

Part II Miscarriages of Justice and Legal Processes

4 Recovering the Craft of Policing: Wrongful Convictions, the War on Crime, and the Problem of Security Jonathan Simon 115

5 Kalven and Zeisel in the Twenty-First Century: Is the Jury Still the Defendant's Friend? Daniel Givelber 140

6 Extreme Punishment Douglas A. Berman 163

7 Miscarriages of Mercy? Linda Ross Meyer 185

8 Memorializing Miscarriages of Justice: Clemency Petitions in the Killing State Austin Sarat 229

Part III Reconceptualizing Miscarriages of Justice

9 Miscarriage of Justice as Misnomer Markus D. Dubber 281

10 The Scale of Injustice Patricia Ewick 303

Contributors 329

Index 331