| Circumstantial Evidence: Circumstantial Evidence: Death, Life, and Justice in a Southern Town Contributor(s): Earley, Pete (Author) |
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ISBN: 0553763563 ISBN-13: 9780553763560 Publisher: Bantam Dell OUR PRICE: $22.80 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 1995 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - True Crime | Murder - General - Political Science | Law Enforcement - Law | Criminal Procedure |
| Dewey: 364.152 |
| Physical Information: 1.06" H x 6" W x 9" (1.54 lbs) 528 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Pete Earley's "The Hot House" gave America a riveting, uncompromising look at the nation's most notorious prison--the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas--a book that "Kirkus Reviews" called a " fascinating white-knuckle tour of hell, brilliantly reported." Now Earley shows us a different, even more intimate view of justice--and injustice--American-style. In Monroeville, Alabama, in the fall of 1986, a pretty junior college student was found murdered in the back of the dry cleaning shop where she worked. Several months later, Walter " Johnny D." McMillian, a black man with no criminal record, was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death for the crime. As McMillian sat in his cell on Alabama's death row, a young black lawyer named Bryan Stevenson took up his own investigation into the murder of Ronda Morrison. Finding a trial tainted by procedural mistakes, conflicting eyewitness accounts, and outright perjury, he was determined to see McMillian go free--even if it took the most unconventional means... "From the Paperback edition." |