judicial error

Investigative reporter Fran Simmons puts her own life in danger when she sets out to discover who really killed Dr. Gary Lasch, a murder for which his wife, Molly, has spent years in jail, even though she has no memory of the night of his death.

Presents a comprehensive study of the controversial murder trial involving baseball player Ron Williamson.

A case study of the recklessness of Texas death penalty justice, a study that destroys the myth of the mistake-proof executioner in the death penalty capital of the United States.

Written by Anthony Graves who was wrongfully convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death, the text presents the story of his confinement and struggle for exoneration.

Documents the experiences of Donald Marshall Jr., a young Mi'kmaq from Nova Scotia, who was framed for the murder of his friend Sandy Seale and spent eleven years in prison before being acquitted of the crime.

Tells the story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a black boxer who was wrongly convicted of three murders and spent nearly twenty years in prison.

Tells the story of Kyle Unger, covering how he was wrongfully convicted, the sting that landed him in prison, and his acquittal in 2009.

Every day, innocent men across America are thrown into prison, betrayed by a faulty justice system, and robbed of their lives. This book chronicles more than one hundred of these cases, starting in 1973. Cohen reveals how eyewitness error, jailhouse snitch testimony, racism, junk science, prosecutorial misconduct, and incompetent counsel have populated America's prisons with the innocent.

"Interweaving an insider's account of the true crime saga behind 'Making a Murderer' with other controversial cases from his career, Steven Avery's defense attorney reveals the flaws in America's criminal justice system and puts forth a persuasive call for reform"--OCLC.

A true story in which an African-American teen tries to help Rubin "Hurricane" Carter receive a fair trial for the murder of three men in 1966.