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Chargement... The Court of Last Resortpar Erle Stanley Gardner
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. "Perhaps I have mentioned our contact with Rabbi Sperka in more detail than would have been the case if it weren’t for the uneasy feeling that here in this country, as elsewhere, there is a soil in which someone might try to plant the seed of religious intolerance. We need to be on our guard lest some crazed mind in our own country might find it politically profitable to nourish seeds of prejudice." ( ) A fascinating non-fiction book by the lawyer-writer who created Perry Mason, this book describes the organisation formed by Gardner and others to deal with miscarriages of justice in the USA. The details of some of the cases (such as that of Clarence Boggie) are quite extraordinary and make you wonder if such an organisation is needed today, both in the USA and other countries - although arguably some of its functions are now being taken on by "innocence projects". aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Edgar Award Winner: True stories of miscarriages of justice, legal battles, and landmark reversals, by the creator of Perry Mason. In 1945, Erle Stanley Gardner, noted attorney and author of the popular Perry Mason mysteries, was contacted by an overwhelmed California public defender who believed his doomed client was innocent. William Marvin Lindley had been convicted of the rape and murder of a young girl along the banks of the Yuba River, and was awaiting execution at San Quentin. After reviewing the case, Gardner agreed to help--it seemed the fate of the "Red-Headed Killer" hinged on the testimony of a colorblind witness. Gardner's intervention sparked the Court of Last Resort. The Innocence Project of its day, this ambitious and ultimately successful undertaking was devoted to investigating, reviewing, and reversing wrongful convictions owing to poor legal representation, prosecutorial abuses, biased police activity, bench corruption, unreliable witnesses, and careless forensic-evidence testimony. The crimes: rape, murder, kidnapping, and manslaughter. The prisoners: underprivileged and vulnerable men wrongly convicted and condemned to life sentences or death row with only one hope--the devotion of Erle Stanley Gardner and the Court of Last Resort. Featuring Gardner's most damning cases of injustice from across the country, The Court of Last Resort won the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime. Originating as a monthly column in Argosy magazine, it was produced as a dramatized court TV show for NBC. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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