Presumed Guilty: When Innocent People Are Wrongly Convicted
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- Synopsis
- "In the following chapters, you will see how and why such outrageous miscarriages of justice occur and what can be done to avoid them. You will also see how most of these egregious errors are the result of mere chance and could happen to anyone-including you. Find that hard to believe? Then wait till you see how engineer Lenell Geter ended up with a life sentence for armed robbery because he read books and fed the ducks in a park during his lunch hour. Wait till you see how Randall Dale Adams came within three days of being executed for the murder of a police officer he had nothing to do with because he ran out of gas at the wrong place and the wrong time. Wait till you see how William Jackson Marion was executed for the murder of a man found to be alive four years later. Wait till you see how a desperately poor couple who abandoned their seriously ill daughter in hopes she would receive the care they couldn't afford were convicted of her murder, only to have her discovered alive and well twenty months later. Wait till you see how Joyce Ann Brown ended up in prison for almost ten years because the car used in a robbery-murder was rented by another Joyce Ann Brown. Wait till you see how innocent people are convicted or sentenced to death largely because of the testimony of inexpert "expert witnesses" for hire, faulty forensics tests, and inaccurate polygraph exams. Wait till you see what it cost the Reverend Bernard Pagano before another man confessed to the crimes with which the Roman Catholic priest was charged. Wait till you see the cross that Bible-college student Steven Linscott has had to bear because he believed a nightmare he had might have been a spiritual sign that could help police solve a murder. Wait till you see how Larry Hicks was almost executed for a murder he didn't commit because he helped some neighbors move and had a lazy court-appointed attorney who didn't even bother to appeal his conviction."
- Copyright:
- 1989
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 221 Pages
- Publisher:
- N/A
- Date of Addition:
- 05/12/06
- Copyrighted By:
- Martin Yant
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Social Studies
- Submitted By:
- Dr. Kenneth Cross
- Proofread By:
- Lena
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.