Brandon Garrett
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
American courts routinely hand down harsh sentences to individuals, but a very different standard of justice applies to corporations. [This book] takes readers into a complex, compromised world of backroom deals, for an unprecedented look at what happens when criminal charges are brought against a major company in the United States.
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
""That's not my fingerprint, your honor," said the defendant, after FBI experts reported a "100-percent identification." They were wrong. It is shocking how often they are. Autopsy of a Crime Lab is the first book to catalog the sources of error and the faulty science behind a range of well-known forensic evidence, from fingerprints and firearms to forensic algorithms. In this devastating forensic takedown, noted legal expert Brandon L. Garrett poses...