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University of California Press

Oakland, California

© 2017 Mark Godsey

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Godsey, Mark, author.

Title: Blind injustice : a former prosecutor exposes the psychology and politics of wrongful convictions / Mark Godsey.

Description: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017] | Includes bibliographical references and index. |

Identifiers: LCCN 2017013390 (print) | LCCN 2017016659 (ebook) | ISBN 9780520962958 (eBook) | ISBN 9780520287952 (cloth : alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Judicial error—United States. | Prejudices—United States—Psychological aspects. | Criminal justice, Administration of—Political aspects—United States. | Evidence, Criminal—United States. | Discrimination in criminal justice administration—United States. | False imprisonment—United States.

Classification: LCC KF9756 (ebook) | LCC KF9756 .G63 2017 (print) | DDC 345.73/0122—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017013390

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