Convicting Avery
Subtitle: the bizarre laws and broken system behind "Making a murderer"
By: Michael D. Cicchini
Publisher: Prometheus Books; Prometheus
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9781633882553
Subjects: Judicial error; Murder; Trials (Murder); Trials, litigation; Criminal Evidence; Investigation; Trials (Rape); Making a murderer (Television program); Rape; Eyewitness identification
Description: "A criminal defense attorney goes beyond the popular Netflix documentary to detail the legal nightmare that led to the conviction of Steven Avery"--
Notes: "Completely unauthorized"--Title-page.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Eyewitness (mis)identification; title: Newly discovered evidence; title: Seek, and (eventually) ye shall find; title: Weird science; title: The wrong-person defense; title: Interrogations and false confessions; title: Truth, doubt, and the burden of proof; title: Insufficient evidence; title: Postmortem on preliminary hearings; title: Bail or jail?; title: Introduction to legal ethics; title: The effective assistance of counsel; title: The Minister of Justice; title: The politics of legal reform; title: A closing argument.