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- Book Club Kit: Beyond innocence: [kit] the life sentence of Darryl Hunt : a true story of race, wrongful conviction, and an American reckoning still to come by Zerwick, Phoebe Author; Zerwick, Phoebe Author;
The first lie -- The Blues Brothers -- Darker than blue -- She trusted the police -- A decent life -- A high-stakes game -- We were not absolutely sure -- A chamber of horrors -- What in the fuck is going on? -- Larry, I can't do it -- Life's blood ran in the grass -- We will not give up -- In this life or another -- A closer look -- Without bitterness -- Time for me to speak -- A public face -- The golden egg -- Back in the swamp -- I worried people.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 person in prison and the civil death every ex-prisoner experiences attempting to restart their lives.- Subjects: Biographies.; Case studies.; Trial and arbitral proceedings.; Hunt, Darryl; African American prisoners; African American prisoners; African American social reformers; Ex-convicts; Ex-convicts; False imprisonment; False imprisonment; Judicial error; Judicial error; Racism in criminal justice adiminstration; Racism in criminal justice administration.; Racism; Racism; Trials (Murder); Trials (Rape); Racism.;
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- Beyond innocence : the life sentence of Darryl Hunt : a true story of race, wrongful conviction, and an American reckoning still to come / by Zerwick, Phoebe,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The first lie -- The Blues Brothers -- Darker than blue -- She trusted the police -- A decent life -- A high-stakes game -- We were not absolutely sure -- A chamber of horrors -- What in the fuck is going on? -- Larry, I can't do it -- Life's blood ran in the grass -- We will not give up -- In this life or another -- A closer look -- Without bitterness -- Time for me to speak -- A public face -- The golden egg -- Back in the swamp -- I worried people.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 person in prison and the civil death every ex-prisoner experiences attempting to restart their lives.- Subjects: Biographies.; Case studies.; Trial and arbitral proceedings.; Hunt, Darryl; African American prisoners; African American prisoners; African American social reformers; Ex-convicts; Ex-convicts; False imprisonment; False imprisonment; Judicial error; Judicial error; Racism in criminal justice adiminstration; Racism in criminal justice administration.; Racism; Racism; Trials (Murder); Trials (Rape); Racism.;
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