Lessons from the Wrongfully Convicted

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CORNELL LAW SCHOOL

LEGAL STUDIES RESEARCH PAPER SERIES

The Dilemma of the Criminal Defendant with a

Prior Record – Lessons from the Wrongfully

Convicted

John H. Blume

Cornell Law School

Myron Taylor Hall

Ithaca, NY 14853-4901

Cornell Law School research paper No. 07-017

This paper can be downloaded without charge from:

The Social Science Research Network Electronic Paper Collection:

http://ssrn.com/abstract=1014181

*Professor of Law, Cornell Law School. I would like to thank Erin

Choi, Joanna Davella, Drucy Glass, Matthew Jury, Lei Young and Amber

Whitfield for their research and data gathering assistance. I would like to

thank Steve Clymer, Sherry Colb, George Fischer, Steve Garvey, Sam Gross,

Sheri Johnson and Faust Rossi for their helpful suggestions and comments.

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The Dilemma of the Criminal

Defendant with a Prior

Record – Lessons from the

Wrongfully Convicted

John H. Blume*