Henry, Jessica S.

Summary: "Rodricus Crawford was convicted and sentenced to die for the murder by suffocation of his beautiful baby boy. After years on death row, evidence confirmed what Crawford had claimed all along: he was innocent, and his son had died from an undiagnosed illness. Crawford is not alone. A full one-third of all known exonerations stem from no-crime wrongful convictions. The first book to explore this...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2020

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Prokos, Anna

Summary: "Book introduces the reader to Forensic Science"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press/Scholastic 2020

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Summary: In 1992, Cameron Todd Willingham, a poor, uneducated heavy metal devotee with a violent streak, was convicted of an arson-related triple homicide and put on death row. This is the true-life Texas story of the unlikely bond that formed between Willingham and Elizabeth Gilbert, a Houston mother of two, who battled against the state for twelve years to try to save Willingham by exposing suppressed...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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Summary: How do wrongful convictions happen, and what are the consequences for the lucky few who are acquitted, years after they are proven innocent? Fourteen exonerated inmates narrate their stories, while another exoneree's case is explored. They detail every aspect of the experience of wrongful conviction, as well as the remarkable depths of endurance sustained by each exoneree who never lost hope.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2017

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Barnett, Brittany K.

Summary: "An urgent call to free those buried alive by America's legal system, and an inspiring true story about unwavering belief in humanity-from a gifted young lawyer and important new voice in the movement to transform the system. 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,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2020

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Hinton, Anthony Ray

Summary: A man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he did not commit describes how he became a victim of a flawed legal system, recounting the years he shared with fellow inmates who were eventually executed before his exoneration.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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Carter, Rubin

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books Canada 1991

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Beety, Valena E.

Summary: "From a former federal prosecutor turned champion of the wrongfully convicted, this powerful and profound book follows the stories of women reclaiming their freedom and creates a new blueprint for remaking our deeply flawed criminal legal system." -- Inside front jacket flap.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022

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Irons, Maya Moore

Summary: "A journey for justice turned into a love story when Maya Moore, one of the WNBA's brightest stars, married the man she helped free from prison, Jonathan Irons. Jonathan was only sixteen when he was arrested for a crime he did not commit. Maya Moore's family met Jonathan through a prison ministry program in 1999 and over time developed a close bond with him. Maya met Jonathan in 2007, shortly...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Andscape 2023

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Hinton, Anthony Ray

Summary: A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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Wright, Isaac

Summary: "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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022

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McCloskey, Jim

Summary: "By the founder of the first organization in the US committed to freeing the wrongly imprisoned, a riveting story of devotion, sacrifice, and vindication Jim McCloskey was at a midlife crossroads when he met the man who would transform his life. A formermanagement consultant, McCloskey had grown disenchanted with the business world; he enrolled at Princeton Theological Seminary at the age of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020

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Hinton, Anthony Ray

Summary: "A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2022

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Rakoff, Jed S.

Summary: "A senior federal judge's incisive, unsettling exploration of some of the paradoxes that the define the judiciary today: among them, why innocent people plead guilty, why high-level executives aren't prosecuted, why you won't get your day in court, and why the judiciary is curtailing its own constitutionally mandated power"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021

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Summary: Tells the story of seven men who were exonerated after being imprisoned for decades and released after DNA evidence proved their innocence.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2006

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