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Why the innocent plead guilty and the guilty go free : and other paradoxes of our broken legal system

Jed S. Rakoff (Author)
"A senior federal judge's incisive, unsettling exploration of some of the paradoxes that the define the judiciary today: among them, why innocent people plead guilty, why high-level executives aren't prosecuted, why you won't get your day in court, and why the judiciary is curtailing its own constitutionally mandated power"-- Provided by publisher

Print Book, English, 2021
First edition
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2021