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Circumstantial Evidence: Death, Life, and Justice in a Southern Town

Circumstantial Evidence: Death, Life, and Justice in a Southern Town

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General LawGeneral Political ScienceTrue Crime

ISBN10: 0553763563
ISBN13: 9780553763560
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: Aug 1 1995
Pages: 528
Weight: 1.54
Height: 1.07 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Pete Earley's The Hot House gave America a riveting, uncompromising look at the nation's most notorious prison--the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas--a book that Kirkus Reviews called a fascinating white-knuckle tour of hell, brilliantly reported. Now Earley shows us a different, even more intimate view of justice--and injustice--American-style.

In Monroeville, Alabama, in the fall of 1986, a pretty junior college student was found murdered in the back of the dry cleaning shop where she worked. Several months later, Walter Johnny D. McMillian, a black man with no criminal record, was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death for the crime. As McMillian sat in his cell on Alabama's death row, a young black lawyer named Bryan Stevenson took up his own investigation into the murder of Ronda Morrison. Finding a trial tainted by procedural mistakes, conflicting eyewitness accounts, and outright perjury, he was determined to see McMillian go free--even if it took the most unconventional means...

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