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141) Indefensible
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xv, 304 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 18 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
227 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, facsimile ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1932, the city of Natchez, Mississippi, reckoned with an unexpected influx of journalists and tourists as the lurid story of a local murder was splashed across headlines nationwide. Two eccentrics, Richard Dana and Octavia Dockery--known in the press as the "Wild Man" and the "Goat Woman"--Enlisted an African American man named George Pearls to rob their reclusive neighbor, Jennie Merrill, at her estate. During the attempted robbery, Merrill was...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
viii, 321 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Tens of thousands of innocent people are behind bars for offenses ranging from misdemeanors to capital crimes. But proving their innocence in the court of law is extraordinarily difficult. After conviction, the presumption of innocence vanishes, and a new presumption of guilt forms and ossifies over time. Our criminal justice system values finality over accuracy, even if it comes at the cost of an innocent person's wrongful conviction and even when...
144) DNA evidence
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Looks at DNA profiling, explains the FBI's DNA database, and explores what life is like for people who have been falsely imprisoned and exonerated by DNA evidence years after their convictions.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
192 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Here is the explosive story of the Kids for Cash scandal in Pennsylvania, a judicial justice miscarriage that sent more than 2,500 children and teens to a for-profit detention center while two judges lined their pockets with cash, as told by Candy J. Cooper, an award-winning journalist and Pulitzer Prize finalist"--
146) Twisted at the root
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Everyone thought Rashad May and Gideon Wise were happily married. That is, until Rashad was convicted of his husband's murder. Four years later, Rashad's brother contacts Ray Lawless-- Minnesota private investigator Jane Lawless's father and the original defense attorney on the case-- with potential evidence of a wrongful conviction. When the case is reopened, Jane and her father must work together to attain justice for a grieving widower. Who actually...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xix, 316 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Marked for Life is the incredible memoir of a wrongfully imprisoned man's epic journey to free himself and others like him. Isaac Wright Jr. was wrongly accused of drug charges in New Jersey and sentenced to life in prison in 1991. He was arrested, tried, and convicted under a draconian "kingpin" statute even though he never dealt drugs a day in his life. Even though the prosecutor knew he was innocent, as did the detectives who investigated and...
148) Blood heir
Author
Series
Blood heir trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
453 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Description
In the Cyrilian Empire, the gifts Affinites use to control the world are unnatural and dangerous. Anastacya Mikhailov, the crown princess, has a secret and deadly Affinity to blood; it is her curse, and the reason she has lived her life behind palace walls. When Ana's father, the emperor, is murdered, her world is shattered. Framed as his killer, Ana must flee the palace to save her life. To clear her name, she must find her father's murderer on her...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xviii, 330 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In May 1985, Darryl Hunt, a Black teenager in Winston-Salem, N.C. was falsely convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of a young white copyeditor at the local paper. In 2003, an award-winning series of articles led to the DNA evidence that exonerated Hunt. Part true crime drama, part chronicle of a remarkable life cut short by systemic prejudice, this book powerfully illuminates the sustained catastrophe faced by an innocent...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xviii, 494 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the Lions' Den tells the true story of a scandal at Penn State University that unfairly resulted in the firing of the nation's most successful and admired collegiate football coach and the respected president of the university. The book chronicles a criminal justice system run amok, political vindictiveness and retribution, moral panic, and the influence of a twisted media narrative. It is, in short, the anatomy of a smear, a memoir told by the...
152) Crown Heights
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1980, a young man named Marvin Grant was gunned down in Flatbush Brooklyn. Clarence Lewis, a fifteen-year-old with a penchant for lying, told the police he saw what happened and was pressured to identify a suspect. This set into motion a series of events that led to the arrest of Colin Warner, an innocent teenager who lived in nearby Crown Heights.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The unforgettable and inspiring true story of Brian Banks, whose youth was shattered by a miscarriage of justice, yet who still found a way to achieve his dream of playing in the NFL."--Back cover.
"At age sixteen, Brian Banks was a happy, popular high school junior--and a nationally recruited All-American Football player, ranked eleventh in the nation as a linebacker. But before his seventeenth birthday, he was in jail, awaiting trial on charges...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 467 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mary Higgins Clark is one of the most critically acclaimed mystery writers of our time. The "Queen of suspense" has sold over 100 million copies of her novels in the U.S. alone. Known for her intriguing, clever and suspenseful writing style, now you can enjoy 5 of her bestselling works adapted to feature films.
Pretend you don't see her: When a Manhattan real estate agent witnesses a murder, she joins the Federal Witness Protection Program and starts...
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