num_pages: 224
description: Paul Butler was an ambitious federal prosecutor a Harvard Law grad who gave up his corporate law salary to fight the good fightuntil one day he was arrested on the street and charged with a crime he didnt commit. The Volokh Conspiracy calls Butlers account of his trial the most riveting first chapter I have ever read.In a book Harvard Law professor Charles Ogletree calls a must read Butler looks at places where ordinary citizens meet the justice systemas jurors witnesses and in encounters with the policeand explores what doing the right thing means in a corrupt system.Since Lets Get Frees publication in spring 2009 Butler has become the go-to person for commentary on criminal justice and race relations: he appeared on ABC News Good Morning America and Fox News published op-eds in the New York Times and other national papers and is in demand to speak across the country. The paperback edition brings Butlers groundbreaking and highly controversial argumentsjury nullification (voting not guilty in drug cases as a form of protest) just saying no when the police request your permission to search and refusing to work inside the system as a snitch or a prosecutorto a whole new audience.
language: English
title: Let's Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice
publisher: The New Press