Medwed D.S. (Ed.) Wrongful Convictions and the DNA Revolution: Twenty-Five Years of Freeing the Innocent

Cambridge University Press, NY, USA, 2017. — 442 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-12996-2.This book has its origins in conversations that I had with Rashmi Dyal Chand, my friend and colleague at Northeastern University School of Law. Several years ago, in her role as research director for our faculty, Rashmi encouraged me to organize a conference on a topic related to my scholarship. With gentle prodding from Rashmi, my idea for the topic took shape, and the concept of turning the conference papers into a book emerged. For that reason, among others, I am in Rashmi’s debt. My dean, Jeremy Paul, deserves credit too. I feel fortunate to have a dean who is committed to research and willing to subsidize it even in an era of unrelenting pressures on legal education.Talking about a Revolution: A Quarter Century of DNA Exonerations
Innocence before DNA
Convicting the Innocent Redux
Has the Innocence Movement Become an Exoneration Movement? The Risks and Rewards of Redefining Innocence
Negotiating Accuracy: DNA in the Age of Plea Bargaining
Reacting to Recantations
A Tale of Two Innocence Clinics: Client Representation and Legislative Advocacy
How DNA Has Changed Contemporary Death Penalty Debates
What Does Innocence Have to Do with Cruel and Unusual Punishment?
Flawed Science and the New Wave of Innocents
Prosecutors: The Thin Last Line Protecting the Innocents
Ineffective Assistance of Counsel and the Innocence Revolution: A Standards-Based Approach
Post-Conviction Procedure: The Next Frontier in Innocence Reform
Can We Protect the Innocent without Freeing the Guilty? Thoughts on Innocence Reforms That Avoid Harmful Trade-Offs
Retrospective Justice in the Age of Innocence: The Hard Case of Rape Executions
Outbreaks of Injustice: Responding to Systemic Irregularities in the Criminal Justice System
Exonerating the Innocent: Habeas for Nonhuman Animals
The Global Innocence Movement
Innocence at War