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William T Carrington

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2012

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‘A House Divided’: A Response To Professor Abbe Smith’S "In Praise Of The Guilty Project: A Criminal Defense Lawyer’S Growing Anxiety About Innocence Projects", William T. Carrington Jan 2012

‘A House Divided’: A Response To Professor Abbe Smith’S "In Praise Of The Guilty Project: A Criminal Defense Lawyer’S Growing Anxiety About Innocence Projects", William T. Carrington

William T Carrington

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‘A House Divided’:

A Response to Professor Abbe Smith’s In Praise of the Guilty Project: A Criminal Defense Lawyer’s Growing Anxiety about Innocence Projects

W. Tucker Carrington

Clinical Professor, University of Mississippi School of Law

Director, Mississippi Innocence Project

With the rapid rise in number, and success, of innocence projects across the country, has come criticism of their purported missions and their ultimate benefit to the criminal justice system, particularly as they affect issues of indigent criminal defense. In one of the most thoughtful and provocative articles written in the area to date (In Praise of the Guilty …