Extreme Cruelty

<p><strong>The National Registry of Exonerations reports more than 3499 exonerations since 1989 reflecting more than 31900 years of wrongful imprisonment.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Any trial judge contributing to a wrongful conviction should be haunted unto the grave by that knowledge. But are they? In </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Extreme Cruelty</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Judge Steven Dankof posits that trial judges are the single greatest cause of wrongful convictions and examines why this is so. </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Extreme Cruelty</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> 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. </span></p>