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Summary: "In 1989, Ben Spencer was convicted of murdering businessman Jeffrey Young-a crime he didn't commit. Spencer to spent more than half his life in prison until independent investigators, the foreman of the jury that convicted him, and a new district attorney convinced a judge that Spencer had nothing to do with the killing. He was released from prison in 2022. Journalist Barbara Bradley Hagerty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In 1992, Cameron Todd Willingham, a poor, uneducated heavy metal devotee with a violent streak, was convicted of an arson-related triple homicide and put on death row. This is the true-life Texas story of the unlikely bond that formed between Willingham and Elizabeth Gilbert, a Houston mother of two, who battled against the state for twelve years to try to save Willingham by exposing suppressed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TRICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TrHenry, Jessica S.
Summary: "Rodricus Crawford was convicted and sentenced to die for the murder by suffocation of his beautiful baby boy. After years on death row, evidence confirmed what Crawford had claimed all along: he was innocent, and his son had died from an undiagnosed illness. Crawford is not alone. A full one-third of all known exonerations stem from no-crime wrongful convictions. The first book to explore this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345.73 HENProkos, Anna
Summary: "Book introduces the reader to Forensic Science"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press/Scholastic 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.25 PROSummary: How do wrongful convictions happen, and what are the consequences for the lucky few who are acquitted, years after they are proven innocent? Fourteen exonerated inmates narrate their stories, while another exoneree's case is explored. They 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.973 CALBarnett, Brittany K.
Summary: "An urgent call to free those buried alive by America's legal system, and an inspiring true story about unwavering belief in humanity-from a gifted young lawyer and important new voice in the movement to transform the system. Brittany K. Barnett was only a law student when she came across the case that would change her life forever-that of Sharanda Jones, single mother, business owner, and,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BARNETT, BRITTANY K. BARBeety, Valena E.
Summary: "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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345.73 BEEGrisham, John
Summary: A fundamental principle of our legal system is a presumption of innocence, but once someone has been found guilty there is very little room to prove doubt. Framed shares ten true stories of men who were innocent but found guilty and forced to sacrifice friends, families, wives, and decades of their lives to prison while the guilty parties remained free. In each of the stories, John Grisham and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRIHinton, Anthony Ray
Summary: A man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he did not commit describes how he became a victim of a flawed legal system, recounting the years he shared with fellow inmates who were eventually executed before his exoneration.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.66 HINCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HINTON, ANTHONY RAY HINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B HINTON HINCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Mem HintonGrisham, John
Summary: "In his first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, #1 bestselling author John Grisham and Centurion Ministries Founder Jim McCloskey share ten harrowing true stories of wrongful convictions. Impeccably researched and grippingly told, Framed offers an inside look at the victims of the United States criminal justice system. A fundamental principle of our legal system is a presumption of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2024
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 345.0122 GRIIrons, Maya Moore
Summary: "A journey for justice turned into a love story when Maya Moore, one of the WNBA's brightest stars, married the man she helped free from prison, Jonathan Irons. Jonathan was only sixteen when he was arrested for a crime he did not commit. Maya Moore's family met Jonathan through a prison ministry program in 1999 and over time developed a close bond with him. Maya met Jonathan in 2007, shortly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andscape 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 IROWright, Isaac
Summary: "Marked for Life is the incredible memoir of a wrongfully imprisoned man's epic journey to free himself and others like him. Isaac Wright Jr. was wrongly accused of drug charges in New Jersey and sentenced to life in prison in 1991. He was arrested, tried, and convicted under a draconian "kingpin" statute even though he never dealt drugs a day in his life. Even though the prosecutor knew he was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WRIGHT, ISAAC WRIGrisham, John
Summary: "In his first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, #1 bestselling author John Grisham and Centurion Ministries Founder Jim McCloskey share ten harrowing true stories of wrongful convictions. Impeccably researched and grippingly told, Framed offers an inside look at the victims of the United States criminal justice system. A fundamental principle of our legal system is a presumption of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 345.0122 GRICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 345.0122 GRICarter, Rubin
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books Canada 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CARTER, RUBIN CARHinton, Anthony Ray
Summary: "A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 364.66 HINFabricant, M. Chris
Summary: "In 2012, the Innocence Project began searching for prisoners convicted by junk science, and three men, each convicted of capital murder, became M. Chris Fabricant's clients. Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System chronicles the fights to overturn their wrongful convictions and to end the use of the "science" that destroyed their lives. Weaving together courtroom battles from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.089 FABHinton, Anthony Ray
Summary: A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD B HINMcCloskey, Jim
Summary: "By the founder of the first organization in the US committed to freeing the wrongly imprisoned, a riveting story of devotion, sacrifice, and vindication Jim McCloskey was at a midlife crossroads when he met the man who would transform his life. A formermanagement consultant, McCloskey had grown disenchanted with the business world; he enrolled at Princeton Theological Seminary at the age of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Rakoff, Jed S.
Summary: "A senior federal judge's incisive, unsettling exploration of some of the paradoxes that the define the judiciary today: among them, why innocent people plead guilty, why high-level executives aren't prosecuted, why you won't get your day in court, and why the judiciary is curtailing its own constitutionally mandated power"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345.73 RAKSummary: Tells the story of seven men who were exonerated after being imprisoned for decades and released after DNA evidence proved their innocence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2006