Convicting the innocent
Subtitle: errors of criminal justice
By: by Edwin M. Borchard... with the collaboration of E. Russell Lutz.
Contributors: Lutz, E. Russell, 1902-1970.
Series: Half title: A publication of the Institute of human relations
Publisher: Yale university press; H. Milford, Oxford university press
Published: 1932
Place of publication: New Haven; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 421
Subjects: Judicial error -- United States -- Cases; Trials -- United States; Compensation for judicial error -- United States; Perjury; Crime -- Identification
Other titles: Errors of criminal justice.; Criminal justice, Errors of.
Notes: Collection of sixty-five cases of erroneous criminal convictions of innocent people, the causes of error being due in the main to mistaken identification, circumstantial evidence, or perjury, or some combination of these.  Includes an analysis of the statutes, of European countries providing indemnity for wrongfully convicted and arrested persons, to be used a a basis for American legislation.  cf. Pref.

Bibliography at end of each case.