Presumed guilty : when cops get it wrong and courts seal the deal / Bret Christian.
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TextPublisher: Richmond, Victoria : Hardie Grant Books, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Description: 343 pages ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781742706740 (paperback)Subject(s): Trials -- Australia | Criminal investigation -- Australia | Evidence, Criminal -- Australia | Criminal justice, Administration of -- Australia | Judicial error -- Australia | Criminal procedure -- AustraliaDDC classification: 347.94012 Summary: TRUE CRIME. AUSTRALIAN. Journalist Bret Christian has covered his share of murder stories in his time as a newsman. In his search to understand and report on these acts of evil he discovered something equally malignant at the heart of our society: the vast cache of examples of extraordinary injustices and wrongful convictions within our policing and legal systems. At the centre of this in-depth and often chilling book is the tragic murder, in 1959, of twenty-two year old Perth woman Jillian Brewer, and the mostly inconceivable wrongful arrest and conviction of a young deaf man, Darryl Beamish, for the act. Charting in extraordinary detail the procedural errors, fantastical egos and often deliberate obfuscation of truth that took place in the Beamish conviction, along with many other cases, Christian reveals the startling array of potholes and pitfalls that continue to threaten the execution of proper justice in our society.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [327]-343)
TRUE CRIME. AUSTRALIAN. Journalist Bret Christian has covered his share of murder stories in his time as a newsman. In his search to understand and report on these acts of evil he discovered something equally malignant at the heart of our society: the vast cache of examples of extraordinary injustices and wrongful convictions within our policing and legal systems. At the centre of this in-depth and often chilling book is the tragic murder, in 1959, of twenty-two year old Perth woman Jillian Brewer, and the mostly inconceivable wrongful arrest and conviction of a young deaf man, Darryl Beamish, for the act. Charting in extraordinary detail the procedural errors, fantastical egos and often deliberate obfuscation of truth that took place in the Beamish conviction, along with many other cases, Christian reveals the startling array of potholes and pitfalls that continue to threaten the execution of proper justice in our society.
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