Fall 2010 Course Schedule

Wrongful Convictions: Innocence & the Criminal Process (LAW-729-001)
Hamer

Meets: 01:00 PM - 02:50 PM (TH) - Room 627

Enrolled: 15 / Limit: 18

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Notices

Students enrolling in this course are encouraged to consider enrolling separately in the Innocence Project Supervision and Field Work Component, LAW-754-005 and LAW-754-006, either concurrently or during a later semester. Please see the descriptions of those courses for more information.

Description

This course is offered in connection with the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project, which is housed at Washington College of Law. Students will consider the methods of challenging criminal convictions and the resources currently available. They will focus on the methods of criminal investigation, the use of forensic evidence, the weaknesses of eyewitness identification, the problems of jail house informants, the possibility of false confessions, and the importance of narrative in challenging criminal convictions. The seminar also will explore the cause and effect of wrongful convictions in the criminal justice system and the current debate regarding the significance of the number of wrongfully convicted people who have recently been exonerated.

Textbooks and Other Materials

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Author : Scheck
Title : Actual Innocence (Now Upd w/New Material)
Publisher : New American Library
Edition :
ISBN : 0451209826
Required? : Required

First Class Readings

Not available at this time.