False Justice
Charles is a frequent speaker and a prolific writer on all matters related to OVI / DUI defense.
Former Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro has written an incredible book confronting the deep problems he finds endemic in the criminal justice system. “False Justice is an action plan, filled with frontline stories and hard data that refute eight harmful myths about America’s justice system:
- Everyone in prison claims innocence.
- Our system almost never convicts an innocent person.
- Only the guilty confess.
- Wrongful convictions are caused by innocent human error.
- An eyewitness is the best testimony.
- Conviction errors get corrected on appeal.
- It dishonors the victim to question a conviction.
- If the justice system has problems, the pros will fix them.
“Wrongful conviction was also linked to insidious common factors: false confessions, the use of snitches, bad lawyers, sloppy science, government misconduct, and mistaken eyewitness testimony.”
Related articles
- The ‘Conviction’ to Overturn Injustice (criminaljustice.change.org)
- John Grisham talks of wrongful convictions in NC (omg.yahoo.com)
- 3 convicted in state cleared, Innocence Project says (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
- Barry Scheck: The Story Behind “Conviction” and a Path to End Injustice (huffingtonpost.com)
