Extreme cruelty: the complicity of judges in the shame of wrongful convictions - steven dankof

The National Registry of Exonerations reports more than 3,499 exonerations since 1989, reflecting more than 31,900 years of wrongful imprisonment.

Any trial judge contributing to a wrongful conviction should be haunted unto the grave by that knowledge.

But are they? In Extreme Cruelty , Judge Steven Dankof posits that trial judges are the single greatest cause of wrongful convictions, and examines why this is so.

Extreme Cruelty sounds a clarion call for judges to come out from behind hackneyed appellate court platitudes, take a penetrating look at themselves and their work, and breathe life into their Constitutional oaths and an independent judiciary.

What remains of a once free people demands nothing less.