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A bracing account of abuses of power and corruption in the criminal justice system The Guardian
From the fearless defense attorney and civil rights lawyer who rose to fame with Netflixs The Staircase comes an essential examination of Americas corrupt and abusive criminal justice system
In the past thirty years more than 2700 innocent American prisonerstheir combined jail sentences adding up to almost 25000 yearshave been exonerated and freed Terrifyingly this number represents only a small fraction of the number of persons wrongfully convicted each year As a result US jails and prisons are packed with men and women who should not be there but for crooked police false testimony shoddy investigators vindictive judges bogus expert witnesses or far too often the colour of their skin and their economic condition
Renowned criminal defense attorney and civil rights lawyer David Rudolf has spent his career defending the wrongfully accused In American Injustice he draws from his years of experience in the American criminal justice system including some of his biggest cases to shed light on the immorality and deceit prevalent at all levels of law enforcement and the tragic consequences of this misconduct Rudolf takes the reader to crime scenes to reveal how detectives retrieve evidence that supports their accusations and hide that which doesnt revisits several unsolved murders to detail how and why the true culprits were never prosecuted explores how unconscious bias frequently leads prosecutors and police to jump to false conclusions and exposes how poverty and racism fundamentally deform the systemand why some want to keep it that way
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