Why the innocent plead guilty and the guilty go free : and other paradoxes of our broken legal system /

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Author / Creator:Rakoff, Jed S., author.
Imprint:New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2021].
©2021
Description:193 pages ; 22 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12523121
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ISBN:9780374289997
0374289999
Notes:Includes index.
Summary:"A senior federal judge's incisive, unsettling exploration of some of the paradoxes that the define the judiciary today: among them, why innocent people plead guilty, why high-level executives aren't prosecuted, why you won't get your day in court, and why the judiciary is curtailing its own constitutionally mandated power"--