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Book on the Creation and Work of the Innocence Commission for Virginia Receives Rave Reviews

Posted on Friday, February 1st, 2008 by Eily Raman

Jon Gould, a professor at George Mason University Law School and chair of the innocence Commission for Virginia, recently published a fascinating book on the creation and work of the Innocence Commission.  The book, called The Innocence Commission: Preventing Wrongful Convictions and Restoring the Criminal Justice System, received a rave review in last week's Legal Times newspaper.  Reviewer Steve Weinberg describes the book as a unique "combination of legal theory and details from real-life wrongful conviction cases" that has "spawned a number of new thoughts about wrongful convictions." To read the Legal Times review, click here. The book also received a…

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