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Author : Dolores J. Guthrie
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0993032907
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (93 download)
Download or read book An Innocent in New York written by Dolores J. Guthrie and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benjamin Rachlin
Publisher : Back Bay Books
ISBN 13 : 9780316311502
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (115 download)
Download or read book Ghost of the Innocent Man written by Benjamin Rachlin and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the Best Books of 2017: National Public Radio, San Francisco Chronicle, Library Journal, Shelf Awareness "Remarkable . . . Captivating . . . Rachlin is a skilled storyteller." --New York Times Book Review "A gripping legal-thriller mystery . . . Profoundly elevates good-cause advocacy to greater heights--to where innocent lives are saved." --USA Today "A crisply written page turner." --NPR A gripping account of one man's long road to freedom that will forever change how we understand our criminal justice system During the last three decades, more than two thousand American citizens have been wrongfully convicted. Ghost of the Innocent Man brings us one of the most dramatic of those cases and provides the clearest picture yet of the national scourge of wrongful conviction and of the opportunity for meaningful reform. When the final gavel clapped in a rural southern courtroom in the summer of 1988, Willie J. Grimes, a gentle spirit with no record of violence, was shocked and devastated to be convicted of first-degree rape and sentenced to life imprisonment. Here is the story of this everyman and his extraordinary quarter-century-long journey to freedom, told in breathtaking and sympathetic detail, from the botched evidence and suspect testimony that led to his incarceration to the tireless efforts to prove his innocence and the identity of the true perpetrator. These were spearheaded by his relentless champion, Christine Mumma, a cofounder of North Carolina's Innocence Inquiry Commission. That commission--unprecedented at its inception in 2006--remains a model organization unlike any other in the country, and one now responsible for a growing number of exonerations. With meticulous, prismatic research and pulse-quickening prose, Benjamin Rachlin presents one man's tragedy and triumph. The jarring and unsettling truth is that the story of Willie J. Grimes, for all its outrage, dignity, and grace, is not a unique travesty. But through the harrowing and suspenseful account of one life, told from the inside, we experience the full horror of wrongful conviction on a national scale. Ghost of the Innocent Man is both rare and essential, a masterwork of empathy. The book offers a profound reckoning not only with the shortcomings of our criminal justice system but also with its possibilities for redemption.
Author : Sarah Burns
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307387984
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book The Central Park Five written by Sarah Burns and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spellbinding account of the real facts of the Central Park jogger case that powerfully reexamines one of New York City's most notorious crimes and its aftermath. • A must-read after watching Ava DuVernay's When They See Us On April 20th, 1989, two passersby discovered the body of the "Central Park jogger" crumpled in a ravine. She'd been raped and severely beaten. Within days five black and Latino teenagers were apprehended, all five confessing to the crime. The staggering torrent of media coverage that ensued, coupled with fierce public outcry, exposed the deep-seated race and class divisions in New York City at the time. The minors were tried and convicted as adults despite no evidence linking them to the victim. Over a decade later, when DNA tests connected serial rapist Matias Reyes to the crime, the government, law enforcement, social institutions and media of New York were exposed as having undermined the individuals they were designed to protect. Here, Sarah Burns recounts this historic case for the first time since the young men's convictions were overturned, telling, at last, the full story of one of New York’s most legendary crimes.
Author : John Grisham
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307576019
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)
Download or read book The Innocent Man written by John Grisham and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction: a true crime story that will terrify anyone who believes in the presumption of innocence. • LOOK FOR THE NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES “Both an American tragedy and [Grisham’s] strongest legal thriller yet, all the more gripping because it happens to be true.”—Entertainment Weekly In the town of Ada, Oklahoma, Ron Williamson was going to be the next Mickey Mantle. But on his way to the Big Leagues, Ron stumbled, his dreams broken by drinking, drugs, and women. Then, on a winter night in 1982, not far from Ron’s home, a young cocktail waitress named Debra Sue Carter was savagely murdered. The investigation led nowhere. Until, on the flimsiest evidence, it led to Ron Williamson. The washed-up small-town hero was charged, tried, and sentenced to death—in a trial littered with lying witnesses and tainted evidence that would shatter a man’s already broken life, and let a true killer go free. Impeccably researched, grippingly told, filled with eleventh-hour drama, The Innocent Man reads like a page-turning legal thriller. It is a book no American can afford to miss. Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!
Author : Brandon L. Garrett
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674060989
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Convicting the Innocent written by Brandon L. Garrett and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-04 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On January 20, 1984, Earl Washington—defended for all of forty minutes by a lawyer who had never tried a death penalty case—was found guilty of rape and murder in the state of Virginia and sentenced to death. After nine years on death row, DNA testing cast doubt on his conviction and saved his life. However, he spent another eight years in prison before more sophisticated DNA technology proved his innocence and convicted the guilty man. DNA exonerations have shattered confidence in the criminal justice system by exposing how often we have convicted the innocent and let the guilty walk free. In this unsettling in-depth analysis, Brandon Garrett examines what went wrong in the cases of the first 250 wrongfully convicted people to be exonerated by DNA testing. Based on trial transcripts, Garrett’s investigation into the causes of wrongful convictions reveals larger patterns of incompetence, abuse, and error. Evidence corrupted by suggestive eyewitness procedures, coercive interrogations, unsound and unreliable forensics, shoddy investigative practices, cognitive bias, and poor lawyering illustrates the weaknesses built into our current criminal justice system. Garrett proposes practical reforms that rely more on documented, recorded, and audited evidence, and less on fallible human memory. Very few crimes committed in the United States involve biological evidence that can be tested using DNA. How many unjust convictions are there that we will never discover? Convicting the Innocent makes a powerful case for systemic reforms to improve the accuracy of all criminal cases.
Author : David Baldacci
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0446573000
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (465 download)
Download or read book The Innocent written by David Baldacci and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's best hitman was hired to kill--but when a D.C. government operation goes horribly wrong, he must rescue a teenage runaway and investigate her parents' murders in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller. It begins with a hit gone wrong. Robie is dispatched to eliminate a target unusually close to home in Washington, D.C. But something about this mission doesn't seem right to Robie, and he does the unthinkable. He refuses to pull the trigger. Now, Robie becomes a target himself and is on the run. Fleeing the scene, Robie crosses paths with a wayward teenage girl, a fourteen-year-old runaway from a foster home. But she isn't an ordinary runaway--her parents were murdered, and her own life is in danger. Against all of his professional habits, Robie rescues her and finds he can't walk away. He needs to help her. Even worse, the more Robie learns about the girl, the more he's convinced she is at the center of a vast cover-up, one that may explain her parents' deaths and stretch to unimaginable levels of power. Now, Robie may have to step out of the shadows in order to save this girl's life...and perhaps his own.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1268 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The New York Supplement written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cases argued and determined in the Court of Appeals, Supreme and lower courts of record of New York State, with key number annotations." (varies)
Author : New York (State). Legislature. Assembly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1476 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)
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Author : Carl Suddler
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479850284
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)
Download or read book Presumed Criminal written by Carl Suddler and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A startling examination of the deliberate criminalization of black youths from the 1930s to today A stark disparity exists between black and white youth experiences in the justice system today. Black youths are perceived to be older and less innocent than their white peers. When it comes to incarceration, race trumps class, and even as black youths articulate their own experiences with carceral authorities, many Americans remain surprised by the inequalities they continue to endure. In this revealing book, Carl Suddler brings to light a much longer history of the policies and strategies that tethered the lives of black youths to the justice system indefinitely. The criminalization of black youth is inseparable from its racialized origins. In the mid-twentieth century, the United States justice system began to focus on punishment, rather than rehabilitation. By the time the federal government began to address the issue of juvenile delinquency, the juvenile justice system shifted its priorities from saving delinquent youth to purely controlling crime, and black teens bore the brunt of the transition. In New York City, increased state surveillance of predominantly black communities compounded arrest rates during the post–World War II period, providing justification for tough-on-crime policies. Questionable police practices, like stop-and-frisk, combined with media sensationalism, cemented the belief that black youth were the primary cause for concern. Even before the War on Crime, the stakes were clear: race would continue to be the crucial determinant in American notions of crime and delinquency, and black youths condemned with a stigma of criminality would continue to confront the overwhelming power of the state.
Author : New York (State). Court of Appeals.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1166 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs. written by New York (State). Court of Appeals. and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 1166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume contains: (Hazel Marcus; Appraise Stock Value) (Hazel Marcus; Appraise Stock Value) (Hazel Marcus; Appraise Stock Value) (Hazel Marcus; Appraise Stock Value) (Hazel Marcus; Appraise Stock Value) (Ralph H. Moeller against Assoc Hospital Service of Capital District) (Ralph H. Moeller against Assoc Hospital Service of Capital District) (Ralph H. Moeller against Assoc Hospital Service of Capital District) (Marion f. Molloy; Edward Pine-Special Guardian) (Marion f. Molloy; Edward Pine-Special Guardian) (Lenore F. Moore, Inc against John F. O'connell et al) (Lenore F. Moore, Inc against John F. O'connell et al) (Claim for Benefits; Daniel Moskowitz) (Claim for Benefits; Daniel Moskowitz) (John Murphy against Peterson Cipher Code Corp & Harold J. Bowman) (Pearl Murray against Jan Murray) (Pearl Murray against Jan Murray) (Pearl Murray against Jan Murray) (John M. Murtagh against hon. Samuel S. Leibowitz) (John M. Murtagh against hon. Samuel S. Leibowitz) (John M. Murtagh against hon. Samuel S. Leibowitz) (John M. Murtagh against hon. Samuel S. Leibowitz) (Richard Natoli as guardian and individual against Board of Ed. Of the City of Norwich NY) (Richard Natoli as guardian and individual against Board of Ed. Of the City of Norwich NY) (Richard Natoli as guardian and individual against Board of Ed. Of the City of Norwich NY) (Lillian Nerenstone against Jay Leo Rothschild) (Lillian Nerenstone against Jay Leo Rothschild) (Lillian Nerenstone against Jay Leo Rothschild)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1162 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
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Author : New York (State)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1150 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Annotated Consolidated Laws of the State of New York as Amended to January 1, 1918 written by New York (State) and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ann Leary
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0062032372
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)
Download or read book An Innocent, a Broad written by Ann Leary and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Ann Leary and her husband, then unknown actor-comedian Denis Leary, flew to London in the early nineties for a brief getaway during Ann's second trimester of pregnancy, neither anticipated the adventure that was in store for them. The morning after their arrival, Ann's water broke as they strolled through London's streets. A week later their son, Jack, was born weighing only two pounds, six ounces, and it would be five long months before mother and son could return to the States. In the meantime, Ann became an unwitting yet grateful hostage to Britain's National Health Service -- a stranger in a strange land plunged abruptly into a world of breast pumps and midwives, blood oxygen levels, mad cow disease, and poll tax riots. Desperately worried about the health of her baby, Ann struggled to adapt to motherhood and make sense of a very different culture. At once an intimate family memoir, a lively travelogue, and a touching love story, An Innocent, a Broad is utterly engaging and unforgettable.
Author : Radley Balko
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610396928
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist written by Radley Balko and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A shocking and deeply reported account of the persistent plague of institutional racism and junk forensic science in our criminal justice system, and its devastating effect on innocent lives After two three-year-old girls were raped and murdered in rural Mississippi, law enforcement pursued and convicted two innocent men: Kennedy Brewer and Levon Brooks. Together they spent a combined thirty years in prison before finally being exonerated in 2008. Meanwhile, the real killer remained free. The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist recounts the story of how the criminal justice system allowed this to happen, and of how two men, Dr. Steven Hayne and Dr. Michael West, built successful careers on the back of that structure. For nearly two decades, Hayne, a medical examiner, performed the vast majority of Mississippi's autopsies, while his friend Dr. West, a local dentist, pitched himself as a forensic jack-of-all-trades. Together they became the go-to experts for prosecutors and helped put countless Mississippians in prison. But then some of those convictions began to fall apart. Here, Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington tell the haunting story of how the courts and Mississippi's death investigation system -- a relic of the Jim Crow era -- failed to deliver justice for its citizens. The authors argue that bad forensics, structural racism, and institutional failures are at fault, raising sobering questions about our ability and willingness to address these crucial issues.
Author : New York (State). Courts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1088 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The New York State Reporter written by New York (State). Courts and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1192 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book New York Supplement written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes decisions of the Supreme Court and various intermediate and lower courts of record; May/Aug. 1888-Sept../Dec. 1895, Superior Court of New York City; Mar./Apr. 1926-Dec. 1937/Jan. 1938, Court of Appeals.
Author : Richard Compton Harrison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book A Manual of New York Corporation Law written by Richard Compton Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
