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Actual Innocence by Barry Scheck, Peter Neufeld and Jim Dwyer
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Jul 05, 2000 | ISBN 9780553752243 | 310 Minutes

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"Actual Innocence is a gut-wrenching, terrifying, hair-raising account of how fatally wrong things can go inside the American criminal justice system. But it’s also–thank God–a chronicle of redemption, of how science and a group of dedicated individuals have exposed those wrongs."
–Jonathan Harr, Author of A Civil Action

"Actual Innocence is a powerful and illuminating look into the obscene quagmire of American criminal prosecutions. DNA has at last provided the key to the jailhouse door for a veritable host of innocent victims of this system. The book is a great service to justice."
–Arthur Miller

"Actual Innocence is a real-life legal thriller, the harrowing account of ten innocent men wrongfully convicted by a justice system that too often just doesn’t work. Well written and well researched, this book is like a clarion call alerting us to how easily corruption, prejudice, laziness, and flat-out stupidity can cause tragic errors–and how difficult those errors are to correct. This may be the most important book on American criminal justice in a decade."
–William Bernhardt, author of Dark Justice

"Actual Innocence is a remarkably compelling book. Using real-life stories more horrifyingly gripping than any fiction, the authors make clear the deep flaws in our criminal justice system, and the positive difference that is being made by DNA identification methods whose use [Scheck and Neufeld] pioneered. Telling their tale clearly and without fanfare, they let the human drama speak for itself. I couldn’t put Actual Innocence down; it’s a book everyone should read."
–Philip Friedman, author of No Higher Law

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