num_pages: 512
description: Pete Earley's The Hot House gave America a riveting, uncompromising look at the nation's most notorious prison--the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas--a book that Kirkus Reviews called a "fascinating white-knuckle tour of hell,  brilliantly reported." Now Earley shows us a different, even more intimate view of justice--and injustice--American-style.In Monroeville, Alabama, in the fall of 1986, a pretty junior  college student was found murdered in the back of the dry  cleaning shop where she worked. Several months later, Walter "Johnny D." McMillian, a black man with no criminal record, was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death for the crime. As McMillian sat in his cell on Alabama's death row, a young black lawyer named Bryan Stevenson took up his own investigation into the murder of Ronda Morrison. Finding a trial tainted by procedural mistakes, conflicting eyewitness accounts, and outright perjury, he was determined to see McMillian go free--even if it took the most unconventional means...
language: English
title: Circumstantial Evidence: Death, Life, And Justice In A Southern Town
titlecomplete: Circumstantial Evidence: Death, Life, And Justice In A Southern Town
genres: History, Crime, Nonfiction, True Crime, Law
ratings_count: 189
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best True Crime, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Fact Crime
publisher: Bantam