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Includes bibliographical references. |
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The knock on the door: the arrest / Gloria Killian (California exoneree), as told to S.J. Rozan -- The trip to Doty Road: the interrogation / David Bates (Illinois exoneree), as told to Sara Paretsky -- The evidence closes in: the trial / Ray Towler (Ohio exoneree), as told to Laurie R. King -- Just one: the verdict / Michael Evans (Illinois exoneree), as told to Brad Parks -- Descent: entering prison / Ken Wyniemko (Michigan exoneree), as told to Michael Harvey -- The fortune cookie: the lessons learned / Kirk Bloodsworth (Maryland exoneree), as told to Lee Child -- A study in Sisyphus: serving time / Audrey Edmunds (Wisconsin exoneree), as told to Judge John Sheldon and Gayle Lynds -- The wrong man: the cruelties of fate / Alton Logan (Illinois exoneree), as told to Jan Burke -- Luck and the death penalty: community involvement / an essay about Peter Reilly (Connecticut exoneree) by Arthur Miller -- Staying on track: surviving incarceration / Ginny Lefever (Ohio exoneree), as told to Sarah Weinman -- The bloody yellow shirt: obtaining help / William Dillon (Florida exoneree), as told to Phillip M. Margolin -- The long wait: legal appeals / Jeff Deskovic (New York exoneree), as told to Gary Phillips -- The last bad morning: exoneration / Antione Day (Illinois exoneree), as told to Jamie Freveletti -- Moving forward: postrelease / Jerry Miller (Illinois exoneree), as told to John Mankiewicz -- Every day is a new beginning: life after innocence / Juan Rivera (Illinois exoneree), as told to Laura Caldwell. |
| Summary |
Recalling the great muckrakers of the past, an outraged team of America's best-selling writers unite to confront the disasters of wrongful convictions. Wrongful convictions, long regarded as statistical anomalies in an otherwise sound justice system, now appear with frightening regularity. But few people understand just how or why they happen and, more important, the immeasurable consequences that often haunt the lucky few who are acquitted, years after they are proven innocent. Now, in this groundbreaking anthology, fourteen exonerated inmates narrate their stories to a roster of high-profile mystery and thriller writers including Lee Child, Sara Paretsky, Laurie R. King, Jan Burke and S. J. Rozan while another exoneree's case is explored in a previously unpublished essay by legendary playwright Arthur Miller. An astonishing and unique collaboration, these testimonies bear witness to the incredible stories of innocent men and women who were convicted of serious crimes and cast into the maw of a vast and deeply flawed American criminal justice system before eventually, and miraculously, being exonerated. Introduced by best-selling authors Scott Turow and Barry Scheck, these master storytellers capture the tragedy of wrongful convictions as never before and challenge readers to confront the limitations and harsh realities of the American criminal justice system. Lee Child tells of Kirk Bloodsworth, who obsessively read about the burgeoning field of DNA testing, cautiously hoping that it held the key to his acquittal until he eventually became the first person to be exonerated from death row based on DNA evidence. Judge John Sheldon and author Gayle Lynds team up to share Audrey Edmunds' experience raising her children long distance from her prison cell. And exoneree Gloria Killian recounts to S. J. Rozan her journey from that fateful "knock on the door" and the initial shock of accusation to the scars she carries today. Together, the powerful stories collected within the Anatomy of Innocence detail every aspect of the experience of wrongful conviction, as well as the remarkable depths of endurance sustained by each exoneree who never lost hope. |
| Audience |
General adult. |
| System details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Format: Adobe EPUB eBook. |
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Format: Kindle Book. |
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Format: OverDrive Read. |
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Requires Adobe Digital Editions or Amazon Kindle. |
| Subject |
Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States -- Case studies.
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Judicial error -- United States -- Case studies.
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Prisoners -- United States -- Case studies.
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| Genre |
Electronic books.
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| Add'l Names |
Caldwell, Laura, 1967-2020, editor.
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Klinger, Leslie S., editor.
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| Other corporate author |
OverDrive, Inc.
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| ISBN |
9781631490897
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| STANDARD # |
BE502138-B075-4110-B28F-B86F63F7EB64 OverDrive |
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