Every American Should Read
Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2024 | Rating: 5/5 | Best Sellers in Books
filled with contradiction  on one hand the book is incredibly well written and informative  every american should read this  on the other hand one of the most aggravating books i have read recently10 cases where the justice system completely failed to provide justice  innocent individuals imprisoned years or executed for crimes they didn’t commit  any one of these cases would have made a great grisham novel about  an obsessed idealistic lawyer seeking justice for his innocent client  but the straight forward nuts and bolts presentation of the facts make each these stories hard to read let alone 10 of them in a row  cops with hunches  obsessed prosecutors so convinced they are right that they knowingly use poorly trained or incompetent experts purposely ignore evidence hide evidence or testimony from the defence using witnesses with poor memories and jail house snitches  politicians seeking to enhance their hard on crime reputation  add a higher court system that protects the system not the accused  in 25 percent of the dna exonerations to date jailhouse snitches were used at trial to obtain the wrongful conviction  estimates of people wrongly convicted generally range between 4 to 154  the innocence project estimates 4 of people in prison for capital crimes are innocent  the university of michigan of law tracks exonerations  there were 153 exonerations in 2023 alone bringing the total number of exonerations in the united states since 1989 to 3478  and these are only the cases where the convicted had someone competent to fight for them