| The Story of Dan Bright: Crime, Corruption, and Injustice in the Crescent City Contributor(s): Bright, Dan (Author), Nobel, Justin (Author) |
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ISBN: 1608011240 ISBN-13: 9781608011247 Publisher: University of New Orleans Press OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Criminals & Outlaws - True Crime | Organized Crime |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2016014257 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5" W x 8" (0.60 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Locality - New Orleans, Louisiana - Geographic Orientation - Louisiana - Cultural Region - Deep South - Cultural Region - Mid-South - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Everybody knows New Orleans, but nobody knows this New Orleans. At sixteen years old, Dan Bright was the head of a New Orleans drug empire. As his operation grew, it was only a matter of time before he attracted the attention of the criminal justice system, which would stop at nothing--including framing Dan for murder--to get him off the streets. Dan's capital murder trial lasted only one day. The District Attorney's office used false testimony and fabricated evidence to lead the jury to their ultimate conclusion: Daniel Bright was guilty and deserved the death penalty. This incredible true story unflinchingly shows the injustice of the legal system, as well as the base corruption on display at Angola prison, where Dan spent ten years fighting his wrongful conviction and struggling for a right supposedly guaranteed to all Americans: a fair trial. |
Contributor Bio(s): Bright, Dan: - In 1995, Dan Bright was wrongfully convicted of the murder of Murray Barnes after the prosecutors and the FBI withheld key evidence at Bright's trial. Bright was twenty-six years old at the time. He spent nine years in prison, including four years on death row, before the Louisiana Supreme Court reversed his conviction in 2004. |