The Supreme Court on Trial: How the American Justice System Sacrifices Innocent Defendants

by Thomas C. George III

Book Overview

The chief mandate of the criminal justice system is not to prosecute the guilty but to safeguard the innocent from wrongful convictions; with this startling assertion, legal scholar George Thomas launches his critique of the U.S. system and its emphasis on procedure at the expense of true justice.

Thomas traces the history of jury trials, an important component of the U.S. justice system, since the American Founding. In the mid-twentieth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472116185
• ISBN13: 9780472116188
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"