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Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"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. [This book] 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 Mississippi to Texas to New York City and beyond, [the author] takes the reader on a journey into the...
62) Dark passage
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
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Description
Vincent Parry, a man unjustly accused of murdering his wife, escapes from San Quentin and sets out to clear his name; but, he needs the help of someone he can trust. He finds both help and love in Irene, a San Francisco artist who is convinced he's innocent.
Author
Series
Whiskey Creek novels volume 8
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Unable to prove her innocence, Phoenix Fuller was sent to prison for running down a romantic rival. Now, after serving her 17-year sentence, Phoenix wants to return to Whiskey Creek and get to know her son, Jacob. But Jacob's father, Riley, isn't exactly welcoming.
Author
Series
Christopher Paget novels volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the body of eleven-year-old Thuy Sen is found in the San Francisco Bay, the police swiftly charge brothers Rennell and Payton Price with her grisly murder. A twelve-person jury, abetted by an incompetent lawyer for the defense, is quick to find the men guilty and to sentence them both to die for their crimes. Fifteen years later, Rennell is days from his execution, and overworked pro-bono lawyer Teresa Peralta Paget, her husband Chris, and stepson...
65) Brian Banks
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The inspirational true story, an All-American high school football star committed to USC who finds his life upended when he is wrongly convicted of a crime he didn't commit. Despite lack of evidence, Banks is railroaded through a broken justice system and sentenced to a decade of prison and probation. Years later, with the support of Justin Brooks and the California Innocence Project, Banks fights to reclaim his life and fulfill his dreams of playing...
69) Papillon
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018].
Language
English
Description
The epic story of Henri Charriere, a safecracker from the Parisian underworld who is framed for murder and condemned to life in the notorious penal colony on Devil's Island. Determined to regain his freedom, Papillon forms an unlikely alliance with convicted counterfeiter Louis Dega, who, in exchange for protection, agrees to finance Papillon's escape.
70) We'll meet again
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
1999
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IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Intriguing...A gripping legal-thriller mystery...This is a story that profoundly elevates good-cause advocacy to greater heights-to where innocent lives are saved." --USA TodayPublishers Weekly -- Most Anticipated Books of Fall "A crisply written page turner." -- NPR A gripping account of one man's long road to freedom that will forever change how we understand our criminal justice systemDuring the last two decades, more than two thousand American...
72) The phantom
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The Phantom tells the story of one of the darkest episodes in the long history of American justice. A story of how the State of Texas knowingly sent an innocent man to his death and left a serial killer at large. A case in which for the first time it can be conclusively proven that the US courts executed a blameless man. This film uncovers the shocking truth behind a tale of murder, corruption and lies that unfolded in the dusty, desperate streets...
Author
Series
Bitter Creek series volume 7
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
FBI Special Agent Breed Grayhawk has the hottest sex in his life with a stranger who calls herself Grace Smith, only to discover early the next morning that her real name is Merle Raye Finkel -- and she's a convicted double murderer who broke her parole a year ago and disappeared. Now she's his prime suspect in a terrorist threat against the U.S. president. Grace Caldwell is determined to find the killer who framed her for the murder of her father...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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, like Brittany, Black daughter of the rural South. A victim of America's devastating war on drugs, Sharanda was serving a life sentence without parole--for a first-time drug offense. Moved by Sharanda's plight, Brittany set to work to gain her freedom"--
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
On Halloween 1975, Martha Moxley was found brutally murdered outside her home in swanky Greenwich, Connecticut. Twenty-seven years after her death, the State of Connecticut spent some $25 million to convict her friend and neighbor, Michael Skakel, of the murder. At Michael’s criminal trial, the State offered no physical or forensic evidence, no fingerprints or DNA, no eyewitness linking Michael to the killing. The trial ignited a media firestorm...
Author
Publisher
Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
“Just as the Black Lives Matter movement and recent protests have shown the leadership of women of color in organizing against the prison state, this book will show the leadership of women, which is too often ignored, in the innocence movement.” —Aya Gruber, Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School, author of The Feminist War on CrimeThrough the lens of her work with the Innocence Movement and her client Leigh Stubbs—a woman denied...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"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 innocent, as did the detectives who investigated and...
Author
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Susan Lentigo's daughter was murdered twenty years ago--and now, at long last, this small-town waitress sets out on a road trip all the way from Upstate New York to North Dakota to witness the killer's execution. On her journey she discovers shocking new evidence that leads her to suspect the condemned man is innocent--and the real killer is still free. Even worse, her prime suspect has a young daughter who's at terrible risk. With no money and no...
Author
Series
Predator trilogy (Allison Brennan) volume 3
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
For thirty years, FBI scientist Olivia St. Martin has lived with guilt and one abiding certainty that while she wasnt able to save her sisters life, she did testify and helped to convict the rapist and killer. When shocking new evidence exonerates the man Olivia is sure she saw abduct her sister, she breaks every rule in the book to uncover the truth.
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