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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 December 2025

Kent Roach
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Justice for Some
A Comparative Study of Miscarriages of Justice and Wrongful Convictions
, pp. 643 - 659
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Print publication year: 2026
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Index

Abbott, Greg, 248
Actual Innocence, 235, 290, 323
Adams, Jarrett, 420
Adams, Randall, 314
Adversarial systems, 7, 20, 100101, 112, 146, 148, 583
After Innocence, 280
al-Megrahi, Adelbaset, 192
Alaska Innocence Project, 366
Aleinikoff, Alexander, 256, 266
Alexander, Michelle, 313
Alford plea, 13, 105, 227, 268, 280, 367, 392, 531
Algeria, 34, 302
Ali, Ben, 301
Alito, Justice, 47
Allen, Ronald, 318
American extralegalism, 73, 225, 240, 252, 256, 260, 268, 300, 331, 363
American National Registry of Exonerations
faulty forensics, 4, 69, 76, 87, 430, 568
Andrew, Brenda, 431
anti-Black racism, 5, 14, 311, 360, 576
anti-Indigenous racism, 338, 576
antisemitism, 297
Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, 1996, 54, 239, 258, 560
Arden, Jacinda, 195
Argentina
forensic experts, 91
interrogations, 78
revision procedure, 137
Argentina Code of Criminal Procedure, 63
Artis, John, 305
Association in Defence of the Wrongfully Convicted, 548
Australia, 11, 201, 349
failed attempts to create a Criminal Cases Review Commission, 201
New South Wales’s Crimes (Appeal and Review) Act 2001, 540
right to second and subsequent appeal, 24, 201203, 539540, 571, 574, 591, 595
right to second and subsequent appeal, preference in Western Australian and Queensland for factual innocence, 203, 540
wrongful conviction of Indigenous men, 349
wrongful conviction of Indigenous women, 415
Badenoch, Kemi, 218
Bailey, Andrew, 287, 577
Bakken, Tim, 105
Banks, Brian, 419
Baran, Bernard, 382383, 389
Bator, Paul, 44, 240, 258, 260, 264, 309
Jim Crow, 260
Bazelon, Lara, 281
Beaulieu, Wilfred, 427
Beck, Adolph, 154
Bedau, Hugo, 233
Beety, Valena, 284, 392
Bell, John, 7
Bemba, Jean Pierre
denied compensation for pre-trial detention, 555
Bentley, Derek, 165
pardon, 166
Bernard, Brendan, 273
Bertillon, Alphonse, 295
Bhagwati, Justice, 489, 492, 495, 504
Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha (Second) Sanhita, 2023, 79, 479, 496, 595
efficiency concerns, 503
forensic investigations, 499
incentivized witnesses, 498
increased risk of false confessions, 497
increased risk of false guilty pleas, 501
Bharatiya Sakshya Act of 2023, 80
Biden, Joe, 240, 254, 265, 273274, 283
clemency death penalty, 255
pardons, 253, 590
Birdling, Malcolm, 195
Birmingham Six, 34, 108, 169170, 206, 211, 303304, 547
Black, Hugo, 44, 261
Black Elk, Cassandra, 412
Black United Front, 342343
Blackett, O’Neil, 339
Blackstonian ratio, 50, 450, 551
public opinion, 51
Blair, Tony, 15, 20, 569
Bloodsworth, Kirk, 270, 314
Bobbitt, Phillip, 19, 52
Bolton, Emily, 211
Borchard, Edwin, 3, 13, 4143, 47, 54, 56, 59, 101, 120, 146, 228, 230, 250, 277, 280, 302, 524, 545, 549, 551, 557, 568, 575, 581
Bosnia
legislative prohibition of show-ups, 68
statutory prohibition of show-ups, 63
Bouvette, Tammy, 413414
Brandley, Clarence, 319
Brant, Richard, 354
Brants, Chrisje, 110
Brennan, William Justice, 45, 261, 568
British Columbia’s First Nations Justice Strategy, 365
British registry of miscarriages of justice, 61, 70, 87, 545
Broadwater, Anthony, 326, 328
Bromley, Derek, 202, 352353
Brooks, Justin, 137, 290
Broomfield, Tamara, 382
Broward County Sheriff’s Office, 85
Brown, Jerry, 412
Burge, Jon, 281, 315, 360, 436
Burns, Alfred, 158
Burns, Sarah, 332
Bush, George H. W., 332
Bush, George W., 242, 251, 253
Button, Frank, 351
Cabranes, Jose, 272
Calabresi, Guido, 19, 52, 239, 466, 507, 523, 533, 546, 558, 567
Calas, Jean, 293, 375
California
compensation legislation, 43
judicial warnings about jailhouse informants, 71
California’s Racial Justice Act, 361
Cameron, David, 38
Campbell, Oliver, 179, 211, 221
Court of Appeal, 180
Criminal Cases Review Commission reasons for decision, 180
Canada, 198, 353
abolition of peremptory challenges, 361
anti-Black racism, 339
anti-Indigenous racism, 339, 413
breach of Article 14(6) of the ICCPR, 553
conservative opposition, 574
Donald Marshall Jr. wrongful conviction, 338, 341
guilty pleas 2019 factual accuracy requirement, 490
inquiry recommendations for a Criminal Cases Review Commission, 108, 172, 198
jailhouse informants, 72, 74, 97
judicial regulation of interrogations, 82
jury trials, 106
lack of legislative reforms, 62
Minister of Justice, referral standard, 2002–2024, 198
Miscarriage of Justice Review Commission, 3, 35, 173, 186, 199200, 574
Miscarriage of Justice Review Commission, no jurisdiction over sentences, 201
Mr. Big stings, 83
public inquiry recommendations on jailhouse informants, 70
sexual assault law reform, 425
sexual assault wrongful convictions, 427
United States v. Burns, (death penalty), 165, 272, 496, 595
wrongful conviction of Indigenous men, 353
wrongful conviction of Indigenous women, 415
Youth Criminal Justice Act and interrogations, 83
Canadian registry of wrongful conviction
jailhouse informants, 39, 61, 70, 76, 87, 101, 365, 430
Cannings, Angela, 93, 410
Carling, Amanda, 365
Carnegie, Andrew, 302
Carruthers, Colin, 196
Carter, Jimmy, 272, 309, 322
Carter, Rubin, 305
jury selection, 306
racial revenge theory, 307
Cassell, Paul, 11, 16, 30, 51, 234
Cassese, Judge, 529
Centurion Ministries, 318
Chamberlain, Lindy, 3, 22, 371, 396397, 431432, 546, 574, 590
High Court decision, 398
public inquiry, 399
Cheit, Ross, 380
Chicago Four
DNA exoneration, 335
Chicago police torture reparation, 281
Chile, 109110, 133, 147
child sexual abuse cases, 136
Guarantee Court, 134135
guilty pleas, 144
new Code of Criminal Procedure, 134
pre-trial detention, 134
Public Defenders’ office, 137
revision procedures, 133
summary procedures, 144
wrongful convictions, 133
China, 1, 5, 20, 100, 434
back from the dead cases, 438
Communist Party, 438, 470471, 478
Communist Party Central Committee 2013 guidelines on wrongful convictions, 456
compensation, 449, 461
compensation and cost internalization, 466
compensation for wrongful convictions, 465
conviction rates, 434, 461462, 470, 579
Cultural Revolution, 438
death penalty, 434
death penalty reforms, 454
decline in executions, 454
defence lawyers, 23, 434, 458, 463, 472
defence lawyers, Supreme People’s Court 2017 Directive, 464
differences with American experience, 477
DNA evidence, 459
exclusionary rule, 452453
executive clemency, 456, 590
false confessions, 435, 446, 452
false guilty pleas, 23, 115, 139, 148, 435, 461, 582, 592
iron triangle, 11, 477, 579
law on state compensation, 465, 557
legitimation and miscarriage of washing, 466
mass imprisonment, 546, 575
minorities, 576
missing unremedied wrongful convictions, 450
multiple rounds of litigation, 446, 455
obstruction of justice offence, 458, 464
Political and Legal Committees, 446447, 471
pre-trial detention, 466
prosecution of officials responsible for wrongful convictions, 447
proven innocence, 477, 570
public executions, 468
Qing dynasty, 438
regulation of interrogations, 80
re-opening acquittals, 449
re-opening convictions, 449
repression, 472
residual doubt, 456
similarities with American experience, 477
social media, 441
strike hard campaigns, 440
studies of wrongful convictions, 445
Supreme People’s Court, 435, 454, 456
Supreme People’s Court 2013 guideline on wrongful conviction, 458
suspended death sentences, 455
torture, 438
wrongful convictions, 434, 579, 592
civilian codes of criminal procedure, 8
Clark, Sally, 93, 410
Cleveland England child abuse inquiry, 381
Clinton, Bill, 240, 261, 312
Cole, David, 313
Cole, Timothy, 225, 247
Combs, Nancy, 533
Communist Party, 14
Communist Party’s Political-Legal Committees, 23
comparative law, 4, 89, 58, 112, 581
focus on particular, 584
focus on universal, 584
compensation, 1, 1112, 552
Algeria, 557
Ecuador, 557
England, 206208, 567, 569
international law principles, 562
Italy, 572
legislation, 561
liability rules, 520
monetary, 562
non-monetary, 596
Peru, 557
pre-trial detention, 519, 572
United States, 277281, 568
unlawful imprisonment, 556, 596
Computer Weekly, 215
Conan Doyle, Arthur, 155, 298
Condren, Kelvin, 350
Confait murder case, 76
confirmation bias, 110
Conlon, Gerry, 303
Connolly, Charles, 159
Connolly, George, 166
Cory, Peter, 70, 74
Cotton, Ronald, 281, 324, 326, 364
Court of Criminal Appeal, 10, 14, 20, 59, 150
Court of Last Resort, 231232, 282
Cover, Robert, 256, 266
Covey, Russell, 276
crime lab scandals, 87
crime victims, 16, 569
crimes that did not happen, 373. See also imagined crimes
American registry, 374
North American registries, 371
stereotypes, 370
criminal cases review commission, 9, 34, 59, 108, 549
access to justice for Indigenous people, 595
appointments and re-appointments, 588
Canada, 1, 198
England, 1, 10, 1415, 20, 149, 373, 584
inquisitorial elements, 588
interests of justice as a referral test, 191
New Zealand, 1, 35, 195, 584
North Carolina, 1, 21, 35, 106, 224, 238, 244245, 372, 569, 574, 589, 593
Norway, 1, 114, 194, 584
Scotland, 1, 191, 584
sentence, 171
and systemic reform, 589
Criminal Justice Act, 1988 s.133, 37
Croy, Patrick, 356, 359, 368
Cunliffe, Emma, 371, 392, 400
Cuomo, Andrew, 253
Damaska, Mirjan, 104, 138, 531
Davis, Troy, 2, 226, 258, 289, 291, 320321, 547, 569
de Berk, Lucia, 105, 404405
death penalty abolition, 578
Death Penalty Information Centre, 253
death row exonerations, 315
United States, 578
Debbie Smith Act, 241
DeLuna, Carlos, 272, 314, 435
Denning, Lord, 170
Devlin, Edward, 158
Deyong, Shen, 460
DiIulio, John Jr., 313, 332
Dils, Patrick, 128
discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, 353, 357, 382, 385
DNA exonerations, 35, 7, 12, 14, 18, 2122, 25, 28, 39, 59, 67, 86, 236237, 243, 247, 290, 372, 575, 582
Black men and white victims, 5
diminishing numbers, 592
diminishing window, 585
Dotson, Gary, 313
Douglas, William, 230
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 155
Dreyfus, Alfred, 13, 155, 294, 304, 367, 536
pardon, 297
Drizen, Steven, 290
Dubber, Markus, 141
DuBois, W. E. B., 296, 304
Duce, Mauricio, 109, 135136, 145
Duff, Peter, 171, 193
Dukakis, Michael, 237, 312, 332
Dumont, Michael, 553
Dworkin, Ronald, 17, 52, 293, 372, 513, 575
Dylan, Bob, 307
Eades, Diana, 416
Edalji, George, 155
Edmond, Gary, 94
Eichelbaum, Justice, 387
Elks, Laurie, 175, 185186, 205
Ellis, Peter, 385387, 432
no compensation, 389
Ellis, Ruth, 167, 187
Court of Appeal, 167
Ely, John Hart, 17
England, 5, 20, 53, 150
capital punishment, 154
compensation, 3, 12, 25, 569, 574
compensation law, 2014 changes, 38, 53
compensation legislation, 1988, 206
compensation legislation, 2014, 207
reductions in total payments, 208
compensation legislation, statutory caps, 206
Court for Crown Cases Reserved, 153
Court of Appeal, 31, 153, 156157, 583
Court of Appeal, fresh evidence, 160
criminal appeals, 2006 proposals to limit to factual innocence, 205
The Criminal Appeals Act, 1995, 171
Criminal Cases Review Commission, 10, 150, 159, 171, 583
Criminal Cases Review Commission, 2015 Parliamentary Committee, 188
Criminal Cases Review Commission, applications, 174, 187
Criminal Cases Review Commission, dialogue with Court of Appeal, 184
Criminal Cases Review Commission, judicial review, 182
Criminal Cases Review Commission, performance, 173
Criminal Cases Review Commission, referral standard, 174
Criminal Cases Review Commission, relationship with government, 183
Criminal Cases Review Commission, staff, 175
Criminal Cases Review Commission, systemic issues, 190
Criminal Cases Review Commission, underfunding, 188
Criminal Cases Review Commission, Westminster Commission, 188
crises over miscarriages of justice, 53
death penalty, 150, 163
death penalty, abolition 1965, 169
extraordinary remedial legislation, 214
false guilty pleas, 162
future of innocence organizations, 212
Home Secretary and C3 Department, 169
lurking doubt, 159
Police and Criminal Evidence Act, 1984, 61
post-conviction disclosure, 187
remedial institutions, 221
Runciman Commission, 161
safety of convictions, 53
Equal Justice Initiative, 300
equality, 17
Erdemovic, Drazen, 529
Esterhazy, Ferdinand, 295
European Court of Human Rights, 25, 114, 120, 124, 570
European Registry of Exonerations, 8, 61, 146, 421
false confessions, 76
false guilty pleas, 101
faulty forensics, 88, 105
incentivized witnesses, 70
sexual assault wrongful convictions, 421
wrongful conviction of women, 429
Evans, Ched, 423
Evans, Timothy, 163
Criminal Cases Review Commission, 164
free pardon, 166
executive clemency, 250, 590. See also individual countries
standards to prove innocence, 253
Exonerated (Central Park) Five, 4, 14, 21, 287, 310, 330331, 360, 368, 468, 578, 585
DNA exoneration, 334
eyewitness identification, 97
in court, 64
expert evidence, 67
legislative reforms, 61
show-ups, judicial regulation, 61, 65
factual and proven innocence, 519
factual guilt, 171, 204, 568
factual innocence, 23, 28, 35, 40, 44, 53, 171, 204, 213, 545, 568
Fairbanks Four, 356, 366
Fairstein, Linda, 334
false confessions, 5, 19, 75, 97, 582, 587
executive regulation, 84
Japan, 131
judicial regulation, 81
legislative regulation, 76
mental disability/mental health, 81
regulation of deception in interrogating youth, 78
false guilty pleas, 7, 22, 100101, 139, 214, 412, 564, 576, 582. See also mass exonerations; Post Office scandal
shaken baby syndrome, 411
Fawcett, Mauha, 348
federalism, 62, 66, 591
fetal Alcohol-spectrum disorder, 346, 348
Findley, Keith, 11, 52, 63, 66, 85, 98, 268, 409, 587
Florida
compensation law, 278
Floyd, George, 21, 359, 577
Folbigg, Craig, 401
Folbigg, Kathleen, 3, 22, 371, 400, 404, 432, 546, 574, 590
Bathurst public inquiry, 403
Blanch public inquiry, 402
diaries, 402
forensic investigations, 23
forensic science, 5, 7, 19, 86, 587
cross-examination of expert witnesses, 88
Forensic Science Regulator of England, 93
judicial regulation, 88
legislative regulation, 92
National Commission on Forensic Science, United States, 95
new science writs in various American states, 92
Ontario, 93
President’s Advisors on Science and Technology, 95
Texas Commission, 92
United States Supreme Court, 96
Forst, Brian, 11, 16, 30
France, 13, 103, 127
2014 legislative reforms, 127
Code of Criminal Procedure Article 622, 545
Cour de Cassation, 128
eyewitness identification, 63
guilty pleas, 142
Outreau affair, 103
revision procedures, 127
summary procedures, 142
wrongful convictions, 127
Frank, Barbara, 102, 230
Frank, Jerome, 102, 230
Frankfurter, Felix, 41
Friendly, Henry, 44, 261, 550
Fu, Hualing, 470, 472
Fuller, Lon, 15, 18, 52, 575, 591
future
bleak, 592
optimistic, 594
Gardner, Stanley, 231232, 282
Garland, David, 227, 585
Garrett, Brandon, 8, 51, 84, 87, 92, 94, 237, 239, 251, 259, 265, 270, 323, 519, 543, 545547, 549551, 559
Geen, Benjamin, 406
gender, 22, 370
stereotype of ideal mothers, 396, 400
stereotype of ideal wives, 393394
United States Supreme Court Andrew v. White, 2025, 431
Gensmer, Holger, 79
Germany, 106, 118, 147
Constitutional Court, 141, 146
eyewitness identification, 63
Federal Supreme Court, 141
forensic expert witnesses, 91
guilty pleas, 139140
judicial approval of undercover investigations, 72
penal culture, 121
penal orders, 140
regulation of interrogations, 78
revision procedures, 118
summary procedures, 139
wrongful convictions, 121
Ghana
witches, 379
Ghostbear, Edward, 355
Gibson, Gene, 351
Gingrich, Newt, 240
Ginsburg, Justice, 46, 412, 570
Givelber, Daniel, 102
Gladue, Jamie, 415
global innocence movement, 436, 576
Global South, 89
pre-trial detention, 34
Godbeer, Richard, 378
Godsey, Mark, 470
Goldsmith, Jack, 269
Goldstein, Abraham, 138
Goswami, G.K., 512
Gould, Jon, 46, 251, 316
Grans, Minna, 112
Greenwood, Holly, 213
Gregory, Wassilie, 357
Gross, Sam, 317
Groveland Four, 362
Grunewald, Ralph, 106, 330
Gudjonsson, Gisli, 197
Guildford Four, 4, 93, 108, 169170, 303
Guiteau, Charles, 36
Gutman, Jeffrey, 278279
Hakamada, Iwao, 131, 579
Hale, Lady, 47, 570
Hamer, David, 22, 372
Hand, Learned, 8
Hanratty, James, 168
Harlan, Justice, 300
Hatch, Orrin, 241, 265
Hattery, Angela, 336
Hayman, Joyce, 382
He, Jiahong, 80, 440, 445, 448449, 453, 467, 469470, 546
He, Xin, 462
Hellqvist, Sara, 113
Henderson, Sakej, 344
Henley, Chris
report on Andrew Malkinson case, 178
Henning, Kristen, 331
Henry, Jessica, 373, 375
Hewitt, Louise, 187
Hill, Paddy Joe, 211
Hillyard, Paddy, 304
Hirsch, Ran, 6
Hirschberg, Max, 5, 7, 13, 36, 108, 120, 229, 374, 575, 578, 581
historical analysis “history of the present,”585
Hodgson, Jacqueline, 100, 129, 142, 145, 147, 176, 185, 188189, 207, 210, 530
Hoffa, Jimmy, 73
Home Secretary, C3 Department, 170
homophobia, 373, 382, 385
Hong Kong, 23, 436, 592
Bill of Rights, 476
compensation, 476
interrogations, 474
lingering doubt, 475
miscarriage of justice, 474
plea bargaining, 476
reopening convictions, 475
unsafe convictions, 475
wrongful convictions, 474
Hood, Lynley, 389
Horton, Willie, 237, 312, 332
Hoyle, Carolyn, 175, 184, 188, 196, 373, 422423
Hughes, Lord, 48
Human Rights Watch, 133
Huugjilt, 451
Ibusuki, Makoto, 133
Illinois
death penalty, 270
free-standing claims of innocence, 259
Illinois Report on Capital Punishment, 315
Illinois’s Torture Inquiry and Relief Commission, 361
imagined crimes. See crimes that did not happen
immediate causes of wrongful convictions, 19, 58
incentivized witnesses, 69
executive regulation, 72
judicial regulation, 72
India, 56, 8, 11, 23, 479
2023 laws, 23, 496503, 572
anti-Muslim discrimination, 510
appellate review, 482
appellate review of death penalty cases, 493
civil society activism, 511
comparisons with China, 479
compensation damages, 485, 487
constitutionality of death penalty, 495
cross-examination of forensic experts, 500
death penalty, 23, 484, 493, 514515
death penalty, inequality in administration, 496
death row exonerations, 595
DNA exonerations, 486, 503, 595
DNA labs and testing, 488
executive clemency, 479, 491492, 590
executive clemency, 2023 statutory restrictions, 502
false confessions, 482
forensic investigations, 94, 479, 595
forensic services, 499, 516
guilty pleas, 489
Hindu nationalism, 511
identification procedures, 486
incentivized witnesses, 487
Indigenous law reform, 504
innocence movements, 510
Innocence Network, 480, 509
innocence projects, 512
judicial preference for wrongful acquittals over wrongful convictions, 495, 506
Law Commission 2015 report on capital punishment, 481, 484
Law Commission 2018 report on wrongful prosecutions, 480, 504, 507
Law Commission rejection of proven factual innocence, 505
legitimation and miscarriage of justice washing, 509
miscarriage of justice, 504
missing DNA exonerations, 488
missing false guilty pleas, 489
missing imagined crime wrongful convictions, 490
missing wrongful conviction after appeals exhausted, 491
missing wrongful convictions, 488
mistaken eyewitness identification, 485
no appeal from guilty plea, 502
no appeal from summary trial, 502
People’s Tribunal, 480, 509
police, 483
police interrogation, 498
pre-trial detention, 507, 513
Project 39A, 494
regulation of interrogations, 79
remedied wrongful convictions, 481
residual doubt, 494
wrongful conviction of Indigenous men, 358, 486
wrongful convictions, 479, 592
wrongful convictions in terrorism cases, 481, 483
wrongful pre-trial detention, 504
India Supreme Court, 23, 25
importance of equality in terrorism cases, 484
preference for wrongful acquittals over wrongful convictions, 488
second appeal from conviction, 491
Indigenous self-determination, 21, 365
Indonesia, 514
innocence, 28
dependent on DNA and luck, 549
lay understanding, 28
third verdicts, 564
Innocence Canada, 548
innocence denials, 593
innocence movement
anti-racism, 594
global alliances, 596
prison conditions, 596
Innocence Network, 213, 223, 574
Innocence Network of the United Kingdom (INUK), 153, 209, 211, 548, 573, 589
innocence organisations, 10
charitable donations, 587
Innocence Project, 66, 238, 247, 305, 359, 420, 568
advocacy, 66
eyewitness identification reforms, 63
international, 548
promising developments, 594
Innocence Protection Act, 2004, 241242, 247, 289
inquisitorial systems, 78, 20, 25, 100, 112, 146, 148, 583
guilty pleas and summary procedures, 138146, 583
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 517
Article 2(3), 520, 526
Article 9(5), 27, 34, 519, 521, 526, 554, 559
Article 14(5), 201, 518, 538, 559, 561, 595
Article 14(5) interpretation by UN Human Rights Committee, 538
Article 14(6), 56, 8, 27, 34, 36, 55, 480, 504, 517, 523, 536, 566, 572
Article 14(6) interpretation by United Nations Human Rights Committee, 552
International Criminal Court, 24, 517, 533537
anonymous witnesses, 533
guilty plea, 531
International Criminal Court for Rwanda, 24, 528530
International Criminal Court for the former Yugoslavia, 24, 528530
guilty pleas, 531, 561
international criminal courts, (in general), 8, 24, 518, 527
appeals and revision, 534
disclosure, 532
fact-finding, 533
guilty pleas, 529530
hybrids of adversarial and inquisitorial systems, 518
state secrecy claims, 532
international right to claim innocence, 1, 24, 57, 239, 543544, 561, 575
standards of proof, 547
Isham, Rommain, 355
Israel
proven innocence proposal for Article 14(6) of the ICCPR, 524
Italy, 8, 53, 123
compensation, 34, 124, 555, 572
eyewitness identification, 63
guilty pleas, 143
pentiti, 73
regulation of interrogations, 79
revision procedures, 123
summary procedures, 143
wrongful convictions, 123
Ito, Kazuko, 130
Jackson, Ketanji Justice, 45, 265, 568
Jackson. Robert, Justice, 362
jailhouse informants, 97
legislative bans on teen-aged informants, 71
legislative regulation, 70
reliability hearings, 71
Japan, 130
false confessions, 131
guilty pleas, 143
iron triangle, 579
jury, 130
prosecutor’s justice, 133
revision procedures, 130
summary procedures, 143
Supreme Court, 132, 144
video recording of interrogations, 132
wrongful convictions, 130, 579
Jenkinson, Amanda, 405
Jessel, David, 210
Jewison, Norman, 309
Johnson, Calvin, 323
Johnson, Clifton Judge, 325
Johnson, David, 131132
Johnson, Ed, 298299, 301
Johnson, Mathew, 418
jury selection, 361
justice, (advocacy group), 170171, 205
Justice for All Act, 2004, 14, 43
Kaglik, Herman, 428
Kambanda, Jean, 530
Keller, Helen, 525
Kelly, George, 159, 166
Kennedy, Ludovic, 169
Kennedy, Randall, 313
Killias, Martin, 110
Kina, Robyn, 416417
King, Colin, 38
Kirby, Michael, 201, 293, 350, 401
Kirk Bloodsworth Act, 241242, 247
Knox, Amanda, 125126, 148
Krone, Roy, 315
Kulac, Ulvi, 79
Kumamoto, Norimichi, 131
LaForme, Harry, 191
Lailler, Maurice, 35
Lake, Beverly, 242
Lander, Eric, 92
Langbein, John, 13, 139, 142
Langer, Maximo, 3, 42, 109, 145
Laudan, Larry, 11, 16
Leahy, Patrick, 240
legal aid, 10
legal process analysis, 911, 58, 586, 591
new legal process, 11
legitimation and miscarriage of justice washing, 560, 581
Leo, Richard, 2, 12, 40, 58, 561, 581
Leonetti, Carrie, 63
Letby, Lucy, 90, 150, 161, 407408
self-authored notes, 408
Lewis, Margaret, 452
liability rules, 558
liberty (advocacy group), 205
Lipski, Israel, 154, 298
Long, Ronnie, 363, 367
Lopez, Steve, 333
Lucas, Henry Lee, 251
lying witnesses, 19
Lynch, Loretta, 95
MacFarlane, Bruce, 481
Maddocks, Glyn, 211
Maguire Seven, 169, 303
Maier, Julio, 109
Malkinson, Andrew, 153, 178, 189, 211, 221, 574, 589
compensation, 207
DNA evidence, 178
Malleus Maleficarum, 375
Mandela, Nelson, 312
Maori law, 388
Maori people, 204, 346, 413, 584
applications for review to New Zealand commission, 195
Markman, Stephen, 234
Marquardt, Tammy, 413
Marquis, Joshua, 234, 273, 317
Marshall, Donald Jr., 21, 261, 292, 312, 340, 366, 568
Marshall, Simon, 82
Marshall, Thurgood Justice, 311, 362, 568
Marshall Commission, 342, 365, 368. See also Marshall, Donald Jr.
anti-Indigenous racism, 344
jury selection, 345, 361
roundtables on anti-Indigenous and anti-Black racism, 342
Martinsville Seven, 254
Maryland
death penalty, 271
Maryland Commission on Capital Punishment, 316
mass exonerations, 21, 101, 145, 219, 223, 226, 274, 564, 580
Rampart scandal, 276
Tulia, Texas, 276
Massachusetts
death penalty, 272
drug labs, 275
Mattan, Mahmood, 164
Criminal Cases Review Commission, 165
May, Teresa, 38
Maybrick, Florence, 22, 154, 371, 373, 393, 395, 431, 586, 596
prison reform advocate, 396
Mays, Maurice, 302
McCartney, Carole, 31, 209
McCleskey, Warren, 262, 291, 312
McCleskey v. Kemp, 290, 311, 337
McCloskey, Jim, 283, 318
McConville, Mike, 116, 471
McMillan, Jane, 345, 366
Meadow, Roy, 410
Medwed, Daniel, 241, 253, 266
Meese, Edwin, 234
Merton, Theodore, 528
Mexico
eyewitness identification, 63
forensic expert witnesses, 91
regulation of interrogations, 78
Miao, Michelle, 454
Michaels, Margaret, 380
Mi’kmaq justice, 345, 366
Mi’kmaq Justice Institute, 344, 366
Milgaard, David, 198, 574
miscarriage of justice, 2, 27, 29, 3233, 5556, 520, 544545, 576
definition, 4, 29, 565
Irish courts definition of, 33
pre-trial detention, 4
sentences, 34
Miscarriage of Justice Review Commission (Canada), 368, 413, 415, 546, 574, 584, 588, 593
sexual assault investigations, 429
mistaken cross-racial eyewitness identification, 299, 323
meta-studies, 329
use of DNA to reduce, 330
mistaken eyewitness identification, 5, 19, 59
Mnookin, Jennifer, 66
Modi, Narenda, 23, 80, 479480, 496, 507510, 572
attempts to influence judicial appointments, 511
rejection of Law Commission proposals, 514
Moles, Bob, 202, 540, 571
Momsen, Carsten, 111, 123
Morris, Errol, 314
Morton, Michael, 249
Mosteller, Robert, 246
Motherrisk lab, 93, 382
Mou, Yu Grace, 116, 445, 454, 459, 462, 471
Mount, Simon, 195
Mr. Bates v. The Post Office, 14, 151, 217218, 590
Mujuzi, Jamil, 37, 524, 547
Mullins-Johnson, William, 353
Murphy, Phil, 254
Muwakki, Salim, 335
Na Jiang, 447449, 453, 467, 471
Narkle, Vincent, 350
Natapoff, Alexandra, 274, 277
National Academy Science, 96
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 276
National Registry of Exonerations, (United States), 18, 39, 223, 227, 238
Naughton, Michael, 39, 46, 159, 188, 206, 209212, 548, 550
Nealon, Victor, 25, 49, 153, 177, 189, 208, 210, 221, 570, 574, 589
DNA evidence, 177
no compensation, 177, 219
Nealon v. The United Kingdom, 25, 49, 152, 208, 450, 570
Nepoose, Wilson, 355
Nesossi, Elisa, 466
Netherlands, 110
Neufeld, Peter, 39, 94, 235, 240, 283, 305, 309, 323, 568, 581, 585, 592
New Jersey
eyewitness identification, 64
New Zealand, 195, 346
applications from Maori people, 346
Criminal Cases Review Commission, 195, 220, 348, 368, 413
Criminal Cases Review Commission, controversy over appointments, 204, 593
Criminal Cases Review Commission, Maori commissioners, 196
Criminal Cases Review Commission, systemic inquiry, 196
wrongful conviction of Indigenous men, 346
Newby, Mark, 177
Nie Shubin, 434435
Nobles, Richard, 2, 30, 53, 151, 162, 213, 220
recurring crises, 214
Norris, Colin, 406
Norris, Robert, 290
North Carolina, 21, 46, 224, 242246, 317, 324325, 563564, 569, 571, 589, 593
disclosure reform, 243
eyewitness identification reform, 243
false confessions, 243
Forensic Science Advisory Board, 243
jailhouse informants, 71, 243
recording of interrogations, 77
North Carolina Actual Innocence Commission, 242243, 317
North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission, 21, 35, 106, 224, 238, 244245, 372, 569, 574, 589, 593
2023 changes, 246, 593
Norway, 20, 113, 194
Criminal Cases Review Commission, 194
mental disorder defence, 115, 122, 194
Nova Scotia
Mi’kmaq justice, 344
Nuremberg trials, 528
Oakes, Connie, 414
Obama, Barak, 240
Office of the Prosecutor (ICC)
guilty plea guidelines, 531
Oketopa, Mikaere, 197, 348, 353
O’Sullivan, Catherine, 384
Outreau affair, 127, 129
Packer, Herbert, 261
Pal, Justice, 528
Parkes, Debra, 371, 392
Parson, Mike, 255, 286287, 590
Pate, Kim, 415
Pattenden, Rosemary, 156, 158, 172
PEACE interrogation techniques, 84, 99
Pean, Gaston, 108
penal culture, 5, 13, 27
Perry, Rick, 92, 248, 276
Perry v. New Hampshire, 66
Philippines, 522
Pitcher, Helen, 153, 179, 183
Pizzi, William, 102
Plavšić, Biljana, 530
plea bargaining, 13, 104, 115118, 138145, 268, 501, 529531, 561, 583
Plumstead, Isobel, 218
Poggiali, Daniela, 405
Police and Criminal Evidence Act, 1984 (England), 61, 68, 76, 98, 150
Code C, 77
Code D, 6162, 67
police misconduct, 578
police torture, 5
policy blind spots, 22
political polarization
effect on search for bipartisan consensus, 594
friend/enemy distinction, 510
Pora, Teina, 346347, 355
Post Office scandal, 4, 2021, 101, 110, 140, 142, 145, 147, 150151, 162, 214, 218219, 221222, 226, 274275, 501, 564, 580, 591, 594
advice of Horizon Compensation Advisory Board, 216
class action litigation, 215
Criminal Cases Review Commission, 216
remedial exoneration and compensation legislation, 221
Powell, Justice, 311
Pratt, Elmer, 319
prejudice, 18, 21
presumption of innocence, 15, 46, 551, 570571
Hallam v. United Kingdom, 49, 208, 450, 570
Nelson v. Colorado, 47
populist opposition, 564
proven innocence, 526
pre-trial detention, 34, 554
Global South, 480
Project 39A, (India), 499, 511
property rules, 558
prosecutorial misconduct, 578
proven innocence, 4, 25, 41, 54, 56, 239, 371, 524, 569
China, 570, 573
clear and convincing evidence, 2
Global South, 550
migration to DNA access law, 44
political popularity, 570
presumption of innocence, 526
United States, 573
public opinion on wrongful convictions, 359
punitive penal culture, 35
Quirk, Hannah, 38, 206207, 305
racial prejudice
historical cases, 585
tunnel vision, 303
Radelet, Michael, 233
Rakoff, Jed, 139, 271272
Rampart scandal, 360
rationing of justice, 9, 19, 27, 35, 43, 52, 567, 572
Rector, Billy Ray, 312
Red Innocente, 137
registries of wrongful convictions, 28, 563
Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, (England), 71
Rehnquist, Chief Justice, 251, 256, 262263
Reid method of interrogation, 84, 86
revision of convictions
Argentina, 137
Chile, 133
France, 127
Germany, 118
Italy, 123
Japan, 130
Norway, 113
Spain, 137
Sweden, 113
Reyos, James, 357
right to an effective remedy, 521
right to claim innocence, 8, 566
regressive effects, 8
Risinger, Lesley, 105
Risinger, Michael, 105
ritual Satanic child sexual abuse scandals, 22, 370, 379
Roberts, Laurie, 360
Roberts, Stephanie, 212
Rodney, Nigel, 525
Rome Statute, 517
Article 54(3)(e), 532
Article 61, 527
Article 65, 527, 531, 561, 583
Article 67(2), 532
Article 72, 532
Article 81, 527, 535536
Article 84, 527, 535536
Article 85, 27, 517, 527, 552, 560
compensation, 555
Romney, Mitt, 271
Roosevelt, Eleanour, 523
Roosevelt, Franklin, 228, 568
Roosevelt, Teddy, 296, 300
Rose, Jasmine, 329
Royal Commission on Criminal Justice. See Runciman Commission
Runciman Commission, 107, 170, 172, 190, 305
Rupp, Rudolph, 107
Ryan, George, 315
Sacco and Vanzetti, 41, 230
Salaam, Yusef, 332
Saloom, Stephen, 247
Salvioli, Omar, 525
San Antonio Four, 370, 432
Sangha, Bibi, 202, 540, 570
Sarokin, Lee Judge, 305, 309, 364, 367
Satanic child abuse panics, 370, 379
Sato, Mai, 175, 184, 188, 373, 422423
Saunders, Omar, 336
Sauvage, Jacqueline, 129
Savannah, Georgia, 320
Scalia, Justice, 44, 226, 234, 257259, 263264, 272273, 321, 569
Scheck, Barry, 39, 235, 283, 323, 568, 581, 585, 592
Schiff, David, 2, 30, 53, 151, 162, 213
recurring crises, 214
Schomburg, Judge, 530
Schwarzenager, Arnold, 251
Scotland, 191
courts, 32
Criminal Cases Review Commission, 191
Criminal Cases Review Commission, legislative pushback, 192
Criminal Cases Review Commission, relation with appellate courts, 193
Scottsboro teenagers, 230, 233
Seale, Sandy, 340
Sebold, Alice, 326328
Sello, Erich, 36, 41, 120
sexual assault law reforms, 419
Canada, 427
moral (over?) correction, 424
policy blind spot, 426
sexual assault wrongful convictions
United States, 427
sexual assault wrongful convictions Canada, 427
shaken baby syndrome, 22, 129, 371, 408, 451
false guilty pleas, 411
Shavell, Amy, 318
She Xianglin, 439, 454
compensation, 440
Shen Deyong, 467
Shepherd, Maria, 409
Shipp, Joseph, 298, 300
Simon, Dan, 5960, 291
Sinclair, Murray, 344
Sing Sing, 254
Slater, Oscar, 155, 158, 297
Smith, Abbe, 573
Smith, Charles, 354, 409, 413
Smith, Earl, 336
Smith, Frank Lee, 250
Smith, Shirley, 411
executive clemency, 412
United States Supreme Court, 411
Song Ci, 12, 437
Sotomayor, Justice, 45, 264, 273, 568
South Africa, 323
criminal appeals, 24
Criminal Procedure Act, section 327 petition to the executive, 541
death penalty, 272
executive clemency, 590
forensic science, 500
right to appeal, 541, 543
witches, 379
South America, 8, 100, 109, 133, 137138, 145, 574
Spain
revision procedure, 137
Starmer, Keir, 2, 304
Stephen, James, 154, 395
Stevens, Jean Paul, 45
Stevenson, Bryan, 240, 362
Stuart, Rupert, 349
Stubbs, Leigh, 391
Sullivan, Peter, 151, 153, 176177, 181182, 212, 214, 221
Sweden, 20, 112
Switzerland, 110, 147
forensic expert witnesses, 91
summary procedures, 145
Syracuse
anti-Black racism, 327
Taiwan, 20, 23, 436, 472, 592
death penalty cases, 473
eyewitness identification, 64
guilty pleas, 117
interrogations, 472
plea bargaining, 474
prosecutors, 473
regulation of interrogations, 79
wrongful convictions, 472473
Taiwan Innocence Project, 473
Tanzania
witches, 379
Taslitz, Andrew, 318
Taylor, Nevada, 298299
Teng Xingshan, 435, 440
Texas, 21, 46, 225, 247
bipartisan reform, 250
in court identifications, 64
death penalty, 247
DNA testing, 249
exonerations, 250
free standing claims of innocence, 259
jailhouse informant regulation, 71, 248
new science writ, 249
Texas Forensic Science Commission, 92, 248
Thaman, Stephen, 104, 115, 143
Thomas, George, 103, 301
Thompson, Jennifer, 324, 326
Thorp, Thomas, 195, 346, 388
Till, Emmett, 326
Tokyo trials, 528
Tortora, Enzo, 73
tragic choices, 19, 52, 152, 567, 572
Trevaskes, Susan, 458
Trump, Donald, 21, 26, 95, 227, 253, 273, 287288, 310, 337, 360, 569, 574, 577
ads calling for execution of Central Park Five, 330
comments on Central Park Five, 331
executions, 273
friend/enemy distinction, 511
pardons, 255, 590
Tuerkheimer, Deborah, 411, 427
Turner, Jenia, 139, 142, 147, 531
Turpin, James, 354
UK registry of miscarriages of justice, 68, 422
false confessions, 76
false guilty pleas, 101
sexual assault wrongful convictions, 422
wrongful conviction of women, 430
Union of Nova Scotia Indians, 342343, 345
United Nations Human Rights Council
General Comment 32, 553
General Comment 35, 555
United States, 1, 5, 11
1938 federal compensation law, 43
anti-Black racism, 227, 237238, 274, 277, 286, 289290, 311, 580
anti-Hispanic racism, 238
anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, 1996, 239
bipartisan reform, 21, 26, 238, 240, 242, 250, 261, 306
compensation, 26, 227, 288, 560, 568, 580
compensation, civil litigation, 12, 277, 279
compensation, jury awards, 279
crime control, 238
cross-examination of forensic experts, 276
death penalty, 233, 270
death penalty, constitutional challenges, 271
death penalty abolition, 283
death penalty for rape, 322
death row exonerations, 455, 578
declining use of death penalty, 288
DNA exonerations of Black men convicted of sexually assaulting white woman, 247
DNA testing laws, 241, 287, 580
executive clemency, 250
extralegalism, 225, 240, 252, 256, 260, 268, 300, 331, 363
false confessions, 267
false guilty pleas, 231. See also mass exonerations
Federal courts, DNA testing, 266
Federal courts, eyewitness identification, 267
Federal courts, free standing claims of innocence, 256
Federal courts, innocence gateways, 259, 265
Federal courts, residual doubt, 268
Federal courts, retention of evidence, 266
Federal courts, shaken baby syndrome, 267
free-standing right to claim and prove innocence, 21
future of Innocence Projects, 281
habeas corpus review, 240
imagined crimes that did not happen, 282
Innocence Project, 227, 235, 238
jury trials, 106
Justice for All Act, 2004, 580
mass imprisonment, 546, 575
misdemeanours, 275
National Groups Registry, 275
non-monetary compensation, 280
overrepresentation of Black people among exonerations, 575
political polarization, 285
professional exonerators, 580
prosecution of officials responsible for wrongful convictions, 447
proven innocence, 230, 287, 291
qualified immunity, 268
sexual assault wrongful convictions, 427
wrongful conviction of Indigenous men, 355
wrongful conviction of Indigenous women, 412
Wrongful Convictions Tax Relief Act, 242
wrongful drug convictions of Black people, 581
Vance, Tami, 391
Vasquez, David, 314
Velazquez, J. J., 253
video recording, 60
Vietnam, 478
Virginia
anti-Black racism, 316
voice identifications, 60
Voltaire, 12, 293, 364, 375
Vonoven, Henri, 35
Walker, Clive, 2, 29, 31, 35, 304, 306, 532
Wall, Nora, 384
Warden, Rob, 438
Warren, Earl, 231
Warren Court, 17, 44, 260261, 265, 571
Weathered, Lynne, 212
Weigend, Thomas, 91, 141142, 531
West, Michael, 391
West Memphis Three, 268
Westminster Commission, 185, 188
Westmoreland-Traore, Juanita, 191
Whitman, James, 43
Wildsmith, Bruce, 343
Williams, Marcellus, 255, 285, 289, 578, 590
Williams, Stanley, 251
Willingham, Cameron, 71, 92, 272, 435
Wisconsin
compensation legislation, 43
eyewitness identification reforms, 62
Wise, Korey, 333
witch trials, 12, 370, 375377
Salem, 378
Woffinden, Bob, 169
women
limits of proven innocence approach, 412
World Jewish Congress, 521
wrongful acquittals, 11, 15, 30
wrongful conviction, 28
compensation, 595
as defined in Article 14(6) of ICCPR, 522
definition, 565
international research and collaboration, 583
nurses, 404
public opinion, 578, 585
wrongful convictions, scholarship, 35, 581
wrongful convictions of Indigenous men
Australia, 349
Canada, 353
India, 358, 486
New Zealand, 346
United States, 355
wrongful convictions of Indigenous women
Australia, 416
Canada, 413, 415
false guilty pleas, 412
New Zealand, 417
United States, 412
wrongful convictions of men for sexual crimes, 418
wrongful sexual assault convictions of Black men, 581582
Wynn, James Jr. Judge, 363, 367
Xi Jinping, 434, 456, 466, 508
Xiaoqing, Zhu, 460
Xiong, Moulin, 11, 51, 450, 454, 456
Yue, Liling, 116, 449
Zalman, Marvin, 41, 46, 469
Zander, Michael, 185
Zelas, Karen, 385, 387388
Zellick, Graham, 186
Zhao Zuohai, 441, 454
compensation, 441
Zola, Emile, 296297, 364

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