Reasonable Doubt

Mallett, Xanthé
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Reasonable doubt : lost lives, justice delayed, criminals walking free : exposing Australia’s worst wrongful convictions

‘The good, bad and downright rotten parts of Australia’s criminal justice system are put on trial by Dr Xanthe Mallett. With her clear-eyed logic and objectivity, this compelling book identifies reasonable doubts which must keep prosecutors and defence lawyers awake at night.’ Hedley Thomas: We all put our faith in the criminal justice system. We trust the professionals: the police, the lawyers, the judges, the expert witnesses. But what happens when the process lets us down and the wrong person ends up in jail? Henry Keogh spent almost twenty years locked away for a murder that never even happened. Khalid Baker was imprisoned for the death of a man his best friend has openly admitted to causing. And the exposure of ‘Lawyer X’ Nicola Gobbo’s double-dealing could lead to some of Australia’s most notorious convictions being overturned. Forensic scientist Xanthe Mallett is used to dealing with the darker side of humanity. Now she’s turning her skills and insight to miscarriages of justice and cases of Australians who have been wrongfully convicted. Exposing false confessions, polices biases, misplaced evidence and dodgy science, Reasonable Doubt is an expert’s account of the murky underbelly of our justice system – and the way it affects us all.

256 pages ; 24 cm #0921

Butler, Wayne — Trials, litigation, etc.  |  Mallard, Andrew — Trials, litigation, etc.  |  Keogh, Henry — Trials, litigation, etc.  |  Baker, Khalid — Trials, litigation, etc.  |  Gobbo, Nicola — Trials, litigation, etc.  |  Condren, Kelvin Ronald — Trials, litigation, etc.  |  Trials — Australia.  |  Criminal investigation.  |  False imprisonment.  |  Forensic sciences.  |  Judicial error.  |  False imprisonment — Australia.  |  Evidence, Criminal — Australia.  |  Forensic sciences — Australia.  |  Due process of law — Australia.  |  Criminal justice, Administration of — Australia.  |  Criminal behavior — Australia.  |  True crime stories — Australia.  |  Crime — Australia — Case studies.  |  Judicial error — Australia.  |  Criminal investigation — Australia.  |  Australia.  |  Australian

Additional Information

Author Mallett, Xanthé
Number of pages256 pages ; 24 cm
PublisherPan Macmillan, Sydney
Year Published2020
Binding Type

Softcover

Book Condition

As new!

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