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Dr Robert N Moles "A state of Injustice" 2004

295pp including index 8pp, table of contents, footnotes and preface by Professor Derrick Pounder, Dundee University. Published by Lothian, Melbourne 2004

This book examines a number of high profile South Australian criminal cases from the past 30 years where forensic investigations were later found to be flawed. These serious errors may have led on one hand to innocent persons being convicted for crimes they did not commit; and on the other hand guilty persons may well have escaped prosecution.

The book looks at the reasons why these errors occurred, examines the cases, and discusses the issues involved, and most importantly looks at remedies to prevent these sorts of errors occurring in the future and examines processes for dealing with cases where miscarriages of justice may have occurred.

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Copyright and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One - The Criminal Justice System
Chapter Two - Police and Forensic Science Procedures
Chapter Three - Autopsies
Chapter Four - Medical Matters
Chapter Five - Time and Tide - Frits Van Beelen 1972
Chapter Six - Time and Again - the cases of David Szach 1979 and Niewdach and Ellis (Gerald Warren) 1992
Chapter Seven - Arsenic and Old Cases - Emily Perry 1981
Chapter Eight - No clothes, no files, no suspicions - John Highfold 1983, Kingsley Dixon 1987
Chapter Nine - ‘There being nothing suspicious …’ Terry Akritidis 1990, Peter Marshall 1992
Chapter Ten - Seeing things - The Baby Deaths Inquest, 1994
Chapter Eleven - The one positive indication of murder - Henry Keogh 1995
Chapter Twelve - No bruise, no grip, no crime - Henry Keogh 1995
Chapter Thirteen - No match - Michael Penney 1996
Chapter Fourteen - Justice for some or for all? - Plea-bargaining
Chapter Fifteen - This is not good enough - responses to miscarriages of justice
Chapter Sixteen - We can’t face the future if we can’t face the truth
Glossary
Back cover of book

In May 2006 - Angus and Robertson Online Bookshop listed this book as No 3 in the top ten law books

"Victims Voice" is the quarterly newsletter published by Victim Support Service Inc, in South Australia. It reported in the March 2006 edition that of the top twelve most popular books and videos in their resource centre, A state of Injustice was in the number one spot.

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