By Justin Nobel,Dan Bright,Clive Stafford Smith
ISBN-10: 1608011240
ISBN-13: 9781608011247
In 1995, Dan vibrant was once wrongfully convicted of the homicide of Murray Barnes after the prosecutors and the FBI withheld key facts at Bright's trial. vibrant used to be twenty-six years previous on the time. He spent 9 years in felony, together with 4 years on demise row, sooner than the Louisiana very best court docket reversed his conviction in 2004.
Justin Nobel is a contract journal journalist. His tales have seemed in Newsweek, Time, Oxford American, Tin condo and Virginia Quarterly assessment. His articles were chosen for e-book in top American shuttle Writing 2011, most sensible American technological know-how and Nature Writing 2014 and top American trip Writing 2016. Justin lives in New Orleans.
"Gritty and uncooked, Bright’s narrative is as interesting because it is worrying for what it unearths in regards to the darkish, racist underside of the yankee justice procedure. Compelling reading." —Kirkus Reviews
"First and most effective, it is a cage-rattling exposé of the corrupt legal justice method of recent Orleans. it is also a decent account of felony existence inside of an important American city."—Scott Neuffer, Foreword Reviews
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