Case of a Lifetime: A Criminal Defense Lawyer's Story

by Abbe Smith

Book Overview

A recent study estimates that thousands of innocent people are wrongfully imprisoned each year in the United States. Some are exonerated through DNA evidence, but many more languish in prison because their convictions were based on faulty eyewitness accounts and no DNA is available. Prominent criminal lawyer and law professor Abbe Smith weaves together real life cases to show what it is like to champion the rights of the accused. Smith describes the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230605281
• ISBN13: 9780230605282
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"