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Circumstantial Evidence|Pete Earley

Circumstantial Evidence : Death, Life, and Justice in a Southern Town

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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...

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  • ISBN-13: 9780553763560
  • ISBN-10: 0553763563
  • Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
  • Publish Date: August 1995
  • Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.07 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.54 pounds
  • Page Count: 528

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