Preface and Acknowledgments / Donald S. Connery -- Introduction / William Styron -- The Richard Lapointe Case Chronology -- Reasonable Doubt -- Justice Unserved? -- Lying Accepted Investigative Tool -- Without Tape, Confession Can Be Unassailable / Alex Wood -- How Richard Lapointe Got His Friends and Why He Needs Them / Robert Perske -- Taking a Stand / Margaret Dignoti -- Richard Lapointe: A Good Life Destroyed / Robert Perske -- Abuse of Power, Arrogance of Power / Donald Connery -- False Confessions and Other Follies / Hugo Adam Bedau and Constance Putnam -- When Will It Ever End? / Peter Reilly -- Even Galileo Confessed / Arthur Miller -- "I'm Guilty If You Say So" / Richard Ofshe -- The Ben Miller Frame-Up / John R. Williams -- The Reasons for "Wrong-Man" Cases / Kate Germond -- Why Johnny Lee Wilson Went to Prison / Michael Atchison and Denis W. Keyes -- The 22-Year Ordeal of Mike Pardue / E. Barry Johnson and Becky Pardue