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Justice Failed: How “Legal Ethics” Kept Me in Prison for 26 Years
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- Published: 26 September 2017
Berl Falbaum is a friend of Proving Innocence, having attended several of our board meetings. He has just written a book, working with the man whom the book is about, Alton Logan. It is, again, a tragic story of our failed justice system. The book has received praise from the likes of Maurice Possley, a Pulitzer Prize winner, and Rob Warden, Executive Director Emeritus, of the Center on Wrongful Conviction at Northwestern University. Possley says,
The story of the wrongful conviction of Alton Logan in Chicago stands out as perhaps one of the most unusual and cruel stories in the history of American jurisprudence.
And Rob Warden states:
This is a superb book about a tragedy in which legal ethics stood perversely in the way of justice...
We encourage you to read Justice Failed: How “Legal Ethics” Kept Me in Prison for 26 Years, published by Counterpoint Press and available at local book stores, Amazon.com, Indiebound, B&N.com and other outlets.
Anatomy of Injustice
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- Published: 29 June 2014
If wrongful convictions and the death penalty concern you, Anatomy of Injustice – A Murder Case Gone Wrong is required reading. Author Raymond Bonner displays gifted storytelling and keen insight into the frailties of the U.S. criminal justice system. He uses the wrongful conviction and capital case of Edward Lee Elmore to do so.
The setting is South Carolina.
Edward Lee Elmore – a black man with limited mental capacity – was convicted in 1982 of the murder of Dorothy Lee Edwards, a well-to-do white woman. After three trials, Elmore’s conviction was upheld and he was sentenced to death.
In many ways Edward Elmore’s story is a classic case of wrongful conviction. It involves the usual factors – poor defense counsel, lousy police investigation, snitch testimony, and prosecutorial misconduct. The injustice dealt Mr. Elmore was facilitated by a climate of racial prejudice. And the condemned man’s only hope was defense attorney Diana Holt, who wrestled with personal demons as she doggedly fought for justice in America’s courts.
The Detroit – West Memphis Connection
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- Published: 18 January 2014
Read this book review in its entirety...The Detroit – West Memphis Connection
Proving His Innocence: Peter Pringle's "About Time"
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- Published: 15 October 2012
Law and justice are not always one and the same. On the 27 November 1980, Peter Pringle waited in an Irish court to hear the following words:
Convicting the Innocent
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- Published: 23 November 2011
Brandon Garrett, a professor at the University of Virginia Law School, has worked closely with the Innocence Project and has published law journal articles on pieces of the wrongful conviction puzzle. He has drawn on his unparalleled knowledge of these cases to provide an information-packed and often eye-opening account of what went wrong. Along the way he lists simple statistics (counts and percentages) that help one understand the proportionate size of the issue at hand. The big question he asks is: Do the relatively few wrongful convictions described in the book reflect systematic failures that run through every state and local criminal justice system?
Directions for Submissions
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- Published: 08 April 2009
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We all know that there is a problem with our criminal justice system and that is why we are here. However, we are not inclined to publish articles which make sweeping generalizations, such as portraying all prosecutors or police as corrupt. That simply is not true and would lower our credibility.
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