By Brandon L. Garrett, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 367 pages, $39.95

‘Every prison that men build,” according to Oscar Wilde, “is built with bricks of shame.” In “Convicting the Innocent,” Professor Brandon L. Garrett of the University of Virginia School of Law will persuade many readers to take seriously the poet’s evaluation. The book calls, loudly and clearly, for the attention of the legal profession.