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Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Falsely convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison, Lacino Hamilton sent thousands of letters advocating for his innocence and critiquing the prison-industrial complex before he was finally exonerated twenty-six years later. Collected here, his letters demonstrate why he has become a leading voice on abolition, incarceration, and justice"--
102) Arthur & George
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Formats
Description
In the vast expanse of late-Victorian Britain, two boys come to life: George, the son of a Midlands vicar, and Arthur, in shabby genteel Edinburgh, both of them feeling at once near to and impossibly distant from the beating heart of Empire. One falls prey to a series of pranks en route to a legal vocation, while the other studies medicine before discovering a different calling entirely, and it is years before their destinies are entwined in a mesmerizing...
103) Law & disorder
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
It is mankind's most abominable crime: murder. No one is better acquainted with the subject and its wrenching challenges than John Douglas, the FBI's pioneer of criminal profiling and the model for Agent Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs. In this provocative and deeply personal book, the most prominent criminal investigator of our time offers a rare look into the workings not only of the justice system - but of his own heart and mind. Writing...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022].
Description
"In the Lions' Den tells the true story of a scandal at Penn State University that unfairly resulted in the firing of the nation's most successful and admired collegiate football coach and the respected president of the university. The book chronicles a criminal justice system run amok, political vindictiveness and retribution, moral panic, and the influence of a twisted media narrative. It is, in short, the anatomy of a smear, a memoir told by the...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Describes how Russ Faria was wrongfully prosecuted and convicted for his wifes 2011 murder, despite having an alibi supported by surveillance video, receipts, and friends testimony and that her friend, Pamela Hupp, had recently replaced him as her insurance beneficiary.
December 27th, 2011. Russell Faria returned to his Troy, Missouri, home after a weekly game night to find his wife, Betsy, dead, a knife still lodged in her neck. Surveillance video,...
Author
Pub. Date
c2014.
Description
"On August 13, 1986 ... Michael Morton went to work at his usual time. By the end of the day, his wife Christine had been savagely bludgeoned to death in the couple's bed--and the Williamson County Sheriff's office in Texas wasted no time in pinning her murder on [him] ... Michael was swiftly sentenced to life in prison for a crime he had not committed ... It would take twenty-five years--and thousands of hours of effort on the part of Michael's lawyers,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
At fourteen, Steve Truscott was a typical teenager in rural Ontario in the fifties, mainly concerned about going fishing, playing football, and racing bikes with his friends. One summer evening, his twelve-year-old classmate, Lynne Harper, asked for a lift to the nearby highway on his bicycle and Steve agreed. Unfortunately, that made Steve the last person known to see Lynne alive. His world collapsed around him when he was arrested and then convicted...
110) The wrong man
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
The first Hitchcock film based on a true story. A nightclub musician is falsely accused of a robbery, an accusation that ruins his life.
113) The next three days
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Life seems perfect for John Brennan until his wife, Lara, is arrested for a murder she says she didn't commit. Three years into her sentence, John is struggling to hold his family together, raising their son and teaching at college while he pursues every means available to prove her innocence. With the rejection of their final appeal, Lara becomes suicidal and John decides there is only one possible, bearable solution: to break his wife out of prison....
115) After innocence
Pub. Date
[2007], c2005
Description
Tells the dramatic and compelling story of seven men that were exonerated after being imprisoned for decades and released after DNA evidence proved their innocence.
116) Presumed guilty
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
When Bobby McLaughlin is wrongfully convicted of murder, his father begins a fierce struggle to free his son from prison. A chilling indictment of a faulty judicial system and an inspirational tale of love and reconciliation between father and son.
117) The last word
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Tells the story of an innocent man that has been executed by the state. Regardless of faith, for or against the death penalty, liberal or conservative, the movie compels viewers to feel not only the collective pain our societal conscience suffers for executing the innocent but also theindividual fear of not knowing what margins of error our judges, jurors and executioners will find acceptable tomorrow.
118) Lockout
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
A man wrongly convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage against the U.S. is offered his freedom if he can rescue the president's daughter from an outer space prison taken over by violent inmates.
119) Arthur & George
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
World-famous author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in this three-part adaptation of Julian Barnes' acclaimed novel follows the separate but intersecting lives of two very different men: a half-Indian son of a vicar who is framed for a crime he may or may not have committed, and Doyle, who investigates the case.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
An intriguing film noir about a novelist out to expose the injustices of capital punishment. Working with his fiancee's father, a newspaper publisher, he frames himself for murder, intending to produce exonerating evidence at the last moment. But the publisher suddenly dies, the evidence is lost, and that's only the first twist in a brilliantly layered plot ideally suited to Lang's talents.