Surviving Justice
America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated
Eggers, Dave (EDT)
Vollen, Lola (EDT)
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BOOK SUMMARY
Beverly Monroe spent seven years in prison for murdering her companion of thirteen years; even though he had killed himself. Christopher Ochoa was persuaded to confess to a rape and murder he did not commit, and served twelve years of his life sentence be
BOOK SYNOPSIS
Beverly Monroe spent seven years in prison for murdering her companion of thirteen years; even though he had killed himself. Christopher Ochoa was persuaded to confess to a rape and murder he did not commit, and served twelve years of his life sentence before being freed by DNA evidence. Michael Evans and Paul Terry each served twenty-seven years in prison for a rape and murder they did not commit. They were teenagers when they entered prison and middle-aged when DNA proved their innocence.
After spending years behind bars, hundreds of men and women with incontrovertible proof of their innocence have been released from Americas prisons. They were wrongfully convicted because of problems that plague many criminal proceedingsinept defense lawyers, overzealous prosecutors, deceitful interrogation tactics, misidentifications, and more. Finally free, usually after more than a decade of incarceration, the wrongly condemned re-enter society with nothing but scars from prison life only to struggle for survival on the outside.
The thirteen men and women portrayed here, and the hundreds of others who have been exonerated, are the tip of the iceberg. By all estimates, there are thousands of innocent victims in prison today. Surviving Justice tells their unimaginable and inspiring stories.
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1932416234
ISBN(13-digit): 9781932416237
Copyright: 2005
Dewey Decimal: 345.73
Library of Congress: oc2007120603
Book Publisher: Pgw
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 497
Paper Weight (lb): 1.35 lb
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