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A Criminal Defense Lawyer's Story
Palgrave Macmillan
August 2008
On Sale: July 22, 2008
256 pages
ISBN: 0230605281
EAN: 9780230605282
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
A recent study estimates that thousands of innocent people
are wrongfully imprisoned each year in the United States.
Some are exonerated through DNA evidence, but many more
languish in prison because their convictions were based on
faulty eyewitness accounts and no DNA is available.
Prominent criminal lawyer and law professor Abbe Smith
weaves together real life cases to show what it is like to
champion the rights of the accused. Smith describes the
moral and ethical dilemmas of representing the guilty and
the weighty burden of fighting for the innocent, including
the victorious story of how she helped free a woman wrongly
imprisoned for nearly three decades. For fans of Law and Order and investigative news programs
like 20/20, Case of a Lifetime is a chilling look at what
really determines a person's innocence.
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