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When Innocence Is Not Enough: Hidden Evidence and the Failed Promise of the Brady Rule

Posted By: arundhati
Date: 7 Aug 2023 00:54:36
When Innocence Is Not Enough: Hidden Evidence and the Failed Promise of the Brady Rule

Thomas L. Dybdahl, "When Innocence Is Not Enough: Hidden Evidence and the Failed Promise of the Brady Rule"
English | ISBN: 1620977044 | 2023 | 288 pages | EPUB | 504 KB

A gripping work of narrative nonfiction, told across time, that exposes what’s at stake when prosecutors conceal evidence—and what we can do about it

The Brady rule was meant to transform the U.S. justice system. In soaring language, the Supreme Court decreed in 1963 that prosecutors must share favorable evidence with the defense—part of a suite of decisions of that reform-minded era designed to promote fairness for those accused of crimes. But reality intervened. The opinion faced many challenges, ranging from poor legal reasoning and shaky precedent to its clashes with the very foundations of the American criminal legal system and some of its most powerful enforcers: prosecutors.
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