Wrongful Convictions: Cases and Materials, Second Edition Paperback – March 20, 2014

I should have know when I couldn't access a preview of the book that it wasn't worth the $60 price tag. But no, I trusted that this would be more. I was looking forward to getting the book in hand, but once delivered all I got was cut and paste extracts from online (hence the formatting problems that others have complained about). There were a few paragraphs of overview, but I think this was meant to be used ONLY as a textbook in conjunction with the class. The description should have made this clear but it did not.I will be returning this as it is useless to me without analysis and commentary.If I could give this less than zero I would. The onus lies with Amazon to give this a more definitive description as a textbook for this particular course taught in San Diego

Great case selection and very helpful notes at the end of this section.HOWEVER, this book is clearly just a collection of cases pulled from Westlaw or something with minimal editing. Text size between citations and substantive text is really inconsistent and distracting. The editing of this book leaves a lot to be desired.

The formatting drives me to insanity.

it likes a new one.

I teach a law school class on Wrongful Convictions and use this as my textbook for the class. The text covers all issues surrounding wrongful convictions and is a wonderful teaching resource. Thank you to Justin Brooks for his hard work on putting this together so we can all teach this all important topic.