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Manifesting justice : wrongly convicted women reclaim their rights / by Beety, Valena E.,author.; Beck, Koa,writer of foreword.(CARDINAL)846751;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-316) and index."From a former federal prosecutor turned champion of the wrongfully convicted, this powerful and profound book follows the stories of women reclaiming their freedom and creates a new blueprint for remaking our deeply flawed criminal legal system." -- Inside front jacket flap.Working with the Innocence Movement and Leigh Stubbs-a woman denied a fair trial largely due to her sexual orientation-a former federal prosecutor weaves Leigh's story through the broader story of a broken criminal system.
Subjects: Biographies.; Judicial error; Judicial error; Criminal justice, Administration of; Criminal justice, Administration of; False imprisonment; False imprisonment; Women prisoners; Women prisoners; Prosecutorial misconduct; Prosecutorial misconduct; Discrimination in criminal justice administration;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Cardiac arrest : five heart-stopping years as a CEO on the Feds' hit-list / by Root, Howard,author.(CARDINAL)631225; Saltarelli, Stephen,author.(CARDINAL)632503;
Includes bibliographical references.Howard Root started Vascular Solutions with little more than a dream and an idea for a single medical device. Fifteen years later, his Minnesota company had created over 500 American jobs and developed more than 50 new medical devices that saved and improved lives. But in 2011, the federal government threatened to destroy his company and put Howard behind bars for years. Cardiac Arrest is the eye-opening true story of life on the Feds hit-list, told from the desk of a CEO who decided to fight back. Follow Howard from the boardroom to the courtroom, as he tells the inside story of the case that sparked outrage in the pages of The Wall Street Journal and triggered a congressional investigation.Imprint as found on Amazon.com.
Subjects: Trial and arbitral proceedings.; Biographies.; Root, Howard; Vascular Solutions (Firm); United States. Department of Justice.; Chief executive officers; Medical instruments and apparatus industry; Prosecutorial misconduct;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Charged : the new movement to transform American prosecution and end mass incarceration / by Bazelon, Emily,author.(CARDINAL)400961;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-391) and index.Part I. The power of the charge. Charge ; The hearing ; Bail ; Gun court ; Elections ; Trial ; The guilty plea ; The new D.A.s -- Part II: The quality of mercy. The appeal ; Diversion ; The Alford plea ; The dismissal ; The ethics trial ; Reform -- Appendix: Twenty-one principles for twenty-first-century prosecutors."A renowned investigative journalist exposes the unchecked power of the prosecutor as a driving force in America's mass incarceration crisis, and also offers a way out. The American criminal justice system is supposed to be a contest between two equal adversaries, the prosecution and the defense, with judges ensuring a fair fight. But in fact, it is prosecutors who have the upper hand, in a contest that is far from equal. More than anyone else, prosecutors decide who goes free and who goes to prison, and even who lives and who dies. The system wasn't designed for this kind of unchecked power, and in Charged, Emily Bazelon shows that it is an underreported cause of enormous injustice--and the missing piece in the mass incarceration puzzle. But that's only half the story. Prosecution in America is at a crossroads. The power of prosecutors makes them the actors in the system--the only actors--who can fix what's broken without changing a single law. They can end mass incarceration, protect against coercive plea bargains and convicting the innocent, and tackle racial bias. And because in almost every state we, the people, elect prosecutors, it is within our power to reshape the choices they make. In the last few years, for the first time in American history, a wave of reform-minded prosecutors has taken office in major cities throughout the country. Bazelon follows them, showing the difference they make for people caught in the system and how they are coming together as a new kind of lobby for justice and mercy. In Charged, Emily Bazelon mounts a major critique of the American criminal justice system--and charts the movement for change"--
Subjects: Prosecution; Prosecutorial misconduct; Public prosecutors; Sentences (Criminal procedure); Discrimination in criminal justice administration; Imprisonment; Criminal justice, Administration of;
Available copies: 20 / Total copies: 22
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Grace and justice on death row : the race against time and Texas to free an innocent man / by Stolarz, Brian W.,author.(CARDINAL)629273; Prejean, Helen,writer of foreword.(CARDINAL)374085;
"What is worse than having a client on Death Row in Texas? Having a client on Death Row in Texas who is innocent and not knowing if you will be able to stop his execution in time. Grace and Justice on Death Row: A Race Against Time to Free an Innocent Man tells the story of Alfred Dewayne Brown, a man who spent over twelve years in prison (ten of them on Texas&#x; infamous Death Row) for a high-profile crime he did not commit, and his lawyer, Brian Stolarz, who dedicated his career and life to secure his freedom. The book chronicles Brown&#x;s extraordinary journey to freedom against very long odds, overcoming unscrupulous prosecutors, corrupt police, inadequate defense counsel, and a broken criminal justice system. The book examines how a lawyer-client relationship turned into one of brotherhood."Includes bibliographical references (page 201-205) and index.
Subjects: Biographies.; Case studies.; Brown, Alfred DeWayne.; Death row inmates; Judicial error; Prosecutorial misconduct; Capital punishment; Attorney and client;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Bringing Ben home : a murder, a conviction, and the fight to redeem American justice / by Bradley Hagerty, Barbara,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: a specimen in amber -- Part 1. conviction. A murder in Dallas ; The day after ; Defying gravity ; A break in the case ; No excuse ; Entering the tunnel ; Witnesses for sale ; Alternatively ; A noble cause ; In the shadow of Henry Wade ; The shell game ; What the jury saw ; The defense rests ; A brief history of innocence -- Part 2. appeal. No harm, no foul ; The priest of justice ; Double helix ; A punitive turn ; A network of innocents ; Batman and robbery ; Down to the studs ; A new story ; Lost in space ; A second bite at the apple ; Judgment day redux ; Ground truth ; No way out -- Part 3. darkness and light. The surge ; Innocence deniers ; No justice for some ; Fresh eyes ; And then there were none ; Reprieve ; Limbo ; State of play ; A partial justice."The true story of a Black man falsely imprisoned for murder, the decades-long fight to free him, and the struggle to make American justice work for everyone. In 1987, a young Black man in Dallas named Ben Spencer was found guilty of killing a white businessman. From the day of his arrest, Spencer proclaimed his innocence and insisted it was "an awful mistake." The Texas legal system didn't see it that way. It allowed shoddy police work, paid witnesses, and prosecutorial misconduct to convict Spencer, and it ignored later efforts to correct this error. More than thirty years later, independent investigators, new testimony, and a new district attorney convinced a Texas judge to release Spencer from prison. As Spencer's fight for exoneration makes clear, the US legal system is broken. Expedience is more important than the truth. Yet the idea is starting to shift, as states work to reduce wrongful convictions, with Texas leading the way. In Bringing Ben Home, Barbara Bradley Hagerty threads together two powerful narratives: the story of an innocent Black man trapped in a system that refused to admit to its mistakes; and the rise of the innocence movement, which has prompted Texas and other states to work to undo wrongful convictions and hold their legal systems to higher standards. By turns fascinating and enraging, this is the chronicle of an innocent man who refused to admit that he was guilty of murder and how his plight helped shift the ways the US legal system deals with questions about innocence. It's both a deeply human tale and a compelling account of what we are doing-or failing to do-to better protect innocent people like Ben Spencer."--
Subjects: Spencer, Ben (Benjamine), 1965-; Judicial error; Compensation for judicial error; False imprisonment; Prosecutorial misconduct; African Americans; Discrimination in criminal justice administration; Trials (Murder);
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 13
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The Almighty Black P Stone Nation : the rise, fall, and resurgence of an American gang / by Moore, Natalie Y.; Williams, Lance.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Big chief and little chief -- Birth of the Almighty Black P Stone Nation -- Presbyterian patrons -- 1968 -- Things fall apart -- Ushering in Islam -- Angels of death -- Qaddafi and the domestic terrorism trial -- Prosecutorial misconduct -- The legacy of terrorism on street gangs -- Stones on the 8-tray.
Subjects: Black P Stone Nation (Organization); Gangs; African Americans;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Chasing justice : my story of freeing myself after two decades on death row for a crime I didn't commit / by Cook, Kerry Max,1956-(CARDINAL)481399;
"Chronicles how a smalltown murder became one of the worst cases of prosecutorial misconduct in American history, and sent the author, an innocent man, to hell for 22 harrowing years--Cook is one of the longest-tenured death-row prisoners to be freed. Convicted of killing a young woman in Texas, Cook was sentenced to death in 1978 and served two decades in a prison system so notoriously brutal and violent that in 1980 a federal court ruled that serving time in Texas's jails was "cruel and unusual punishment." When an advocate and a crusading lawyer joined his struggle in the 1990s, a series of retrials was forced. At last, in November 1996, Texas's highest appeals court threw out Cook's conviction, citing overwhelming evidence of police and prosecutorial misconduct. Finally in 1999 long-overlooked DNA evidence linked another man to the rape and murder for which Cook had been convicted.--From publisher description."--From source other than the Library of Congress
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Trial and arbitral proceedings.; Cook, Kerry Max, 1956-; Cook, Kerry Max, 1956-; Trials (Rape); Trials (Murder); Judicial error; Death row inmates;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Fox is framed / by Smith, Lachlan,author.(CARDINAL)347063;
Faced with evidence of stunning prosecutorial misconduct, a San Francisco judge has ordered a new trial for the Maxwell brothers' father, Lawrence, who was convicted of killing their mother twenty-one years before. A prison snitch soon turns up dead, with Lawrence the only suspect, and Leo teams up with hotshot attorney Nina Schuyler to defend Lawrence against murder charges both old and new. Working the streets while Nina handles the action in the courtroom, Leo is forced to confront the darkness at the center of his life as he follows a trail of corruption and danger that leads to the very steps of City Hall. A tense, twist-filled courtroom procedural, Fox Is Framed barrels toward an unexpected conclusion, as Leo struggles to do right both by the law and his blood."Winner of the Shamus Award for Best First PI Novel"
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Brothers; Criminal defense lawyers; Fathers and sons; Murder;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Fox is framed : a Leo Maxwell mystery / by Smith, Lachlan,author.(CARDINAL)347063;
Faced with evidence of stunning prosecutorial misconduct, a San Francisco judge has ordered a new trial for the Maxwell brothers' father, Lawrence, who was convicted of killing their mother twenty-one years before. A prison snitch soon turns up dead, with Lawrence the only suspect, and Leo teams up with hotshot attorney Nina Schuyler to defend Lawrence against murder charges both old and new. Working the streets while Nina handles the action in the courtroom, Leo is forced to confront the darkness at the center of his life as he follows a trail of corruption and danger that leads to the very steps of City Hall. A tense, twist-filled courtroom procedural, Fox Is Framed barrels toward an unexpected conclusion, as Leo struggles to do right both by the law and his blood."Winner of the Shamus Award for Best First PI Novel"
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Brothers; Criminal defense lawyers; Murder;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Conviction machine : standing up to federal prosecutorial abuse / by Powell, Sidney K.,1955-author.(CARDINAL)395554; Silverglate, Harvey A.,1942-author.(CARDINAL)651515;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In 2009, Harvey A. Silverglate, a prominent criminal defense and civil liberties lawyer, published his landmark critique of the federal criminal justice system, Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent. In 2014, Sidney Powell, a former federal prosecutor in three districts under nine United States Attorneys from both political parties and who has been lead counsel in 500 federal appeals, published her landmark indictment of the system, Licensed To Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice, after she witnessed appalling abuses by prosecutors-more than a decade after she entered private practice. Now these two leading authorities have combined their knowledge, experiences, and talents to produce a much-needed and long-awaited blueprint for reforming the way business is conducted within the Department of Justice and in the federal criminal courts. Both Powell and Silverglate decided to join forces to write this essential and long-awaited book in order to answer the questions and the challenges that each of them has faced over the past several years: "OK," they've been told. "We understand your criticisms. Now how about telling us what has to be done to restore justice to federal criminal justice." This collaboration is their response"--Catch 22 : what talking to the FBI can do to you -- There's nothing grand about grand juries : except their size -- Acts of God : discovery and the hide-and-seek problem -- What does the law require of us? : the conundrum of criminal intent -- Plea bargaining : dancing with the devil -- An offer he can't refuse : use immunity statutes -- not backroom deals -- to compel testimony -- Prosecutorial misconduct : who will prosecute the prosecutor? -- Where have all the judges gone? : federal courts have supervisory power over federal criminal justice, and it's high time they used it -- Once is not enough : restore habeas corpus and coram nobis, repeal the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 -- Coda : action items for criminal justice reform.
Subjects: Prosecution; Public prosecutors; Criminal justice, Administration of;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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