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79 U. Chi. L. Rev. 837 (2012)
Combating Contamination in Confession Cases

handle is hein.journals/uclr79 and id is 837 raw text is: Combating Contamination in Confession Cases Laura H. Nirider,t Joshua A. Tepfer,#t & Steven A. Drizint Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong Brandon L. Garrett. Harvard, 2011. Pp 1, 367. INTRODUCTION Sometimes eyewitnesses make mistakes. Snitches tell lies. Confessions are coerced or fabricated. Racism trumps the truth. Lab tests are rigged. Defense lawyers sleep. Prosecutors lie. So declared Barry Scheck, Peter Neufeld, and Jim Dwyer in their pathbreaking 2000 treatise on wrongful convictions, Actual Innocence: When Justice Goes Wrong and How to Make It Right.' As had never been done before, Actual Innocence presented story after story of wrongful convictions (and near executions) of the indisputably innocent, with each chapter devoted to exposing each of these flaws in the justice system. Actual Innocence was nothing short of a revelation, a wake-up call concerning the reality of wrongful convictions and the truth-telling power of DNA evidence. It was not merely descriptive; it was also prescriptive, setting out a lengthy recipe of reforms needed to prevent future wrongful convictions. University of Virginia law professor Brandon L. Garrett's extraordinary new book -Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal t Adjunct Professor, Northwestern University School of Law; Project Co-Director, Center on wrongful Convictions of Youth, Bluhm Legal Clinic, Northwestern University School of Law. tt Clinical Assistant Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law; Project Co-Director, Center on wrongful Convictions of Youth, Bluhm Legal Clinic, Northwestern University School of Law. $ Clinical Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law; Legal Director, Center on wrongful Convictions; Cofounder, Center on wrongful Convictions of Youth; Associate Director, Bluhm Legal Clinic, Northwestern University School of Law. The authors coteach a clinical course on wrongful convictions of youth and have worked together as cocounsel on numerous cases of false and contaminated confessions. I Jim Dwyer, Peter Neufeld, and Barry Scheck, Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution and Other Dispatches from the Wrongfully Convicted xv (Doubleday 2000). An expanded version was published in 2001. Barry Scheck, Peter Neufeld, and Jim Dwyer, Actual Innocence: When Justice Goes Wrong and How to Make It Right xx (Signet 2001). 837

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