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03098aam a2200469 i 4500 001 8033F8D2214711EEBC7340321FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230713010558 008 091123t20102009nyu b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 0805092277 020 $a 9780805092271 035 $a (OCoLC)468976549 040 $a BTCTA $b eng $e rda $c BTCTA $d YDXCP $d IOH $d HSA $d KSU $d DGU $d BDX $d OCLCF $d OBE $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d IDU $d JVU $d QE2 $d KKX $d CUV $d OCLCO $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 4 $a HV9950 $b .B23 2010 050 4 $a KF9223 $b .B29 2010 055 3 $a KF9223 $b .B23 2010 082 14 $a 345.73/05 $b B118o $2 23 100 1 $a Bach, Amy, $d 1968- $e author. 245 10 $a Ordinary injustice : $b How America holds court / $c Amy Bach. 246 30 $a How America holds court 250 $a First Holt Paperbacks edition 264 1 $a New York, New York : $b Holt Paperbacks, $c [2010] 300 $a 307 pages ; $c 21 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-289) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- Chapter One. "What's a defense?" -- Chapter Two. A Troy champion -- Chapter Three. Miss Wiggs's list -- Chapter Four. Show trial -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index. 520 $a "Attorney and journalist Amy Bach spent eight years investigating the widespread courtroom failures that each day upend lives across America. What she found was an assembly-line approach to justice : a system that rewards mediocre advocacy, bypasses due process, and shortchanges both defendants and victims to keep the court calendar moving. Here is the public defender who pleads most of his clients guilty with scant knowledge about their circumstances ; the judge who sets outrageous bail for negligible crimes ; the prosecutor who habitually declines to pursue significant cases ; the court that works together to achieve a wrongful conviction. Going beyond the usual explanations of bad apples and meager funding, Ordinary Injustice reveals a clubby legal culture of compromise, and shows the tragic consequences that result when communities mistake the rules that lawyers play by for the rule of law. It is time, Bach argues, to institute a new method of checks and balances that will make injustice visible - the first and necessary step to reform."--taken from publisher description. 500 $a "A Holt paperback." 650 0 $a Criminal justice, Administration of $z United States. 650 0 $a Judicial error $z United States. 650 6 $a Justice peÌnale $x Administration $z EÌtats-Unis. 650 6 $a Erreur judiciaire $z EÌtats-Unis. 650 7 $a Criminal justice, Administration of. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00883246 650 7 $a Judicial error. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00984666 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 650 7 $a Administration of criminal justice $z United States. $2 sears 650 0 $a Criminal justice, Administration of $z United States. 650 0 $a Judicial error $z United States. 941 $a 1 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20240724065846.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8033F8D2214711EEBC7340321FECA4DB 994 $a 92 $b IOHInitiate Another SILO Locator Search