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The cadaver king and the country dentist : a true story of injustice in the American South /

Relates the stories of two innocent men who were wrongly accused and convicted of crimes due largely to the legally condoned failures perpetrated by invalid forensic science and institutional racism. --Publisher.

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Main Authors: Balko, Radley
Group Author: Carrington, Tucker W. Tucker; Grisham, John
Published: PublicAffairs,
Publisher Address: New York, NY :
Publication Dates: 2018.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Hayne, Steven > Forensic pathologist
West, Michael > Dentist
Brooks, Levon, > 1959- > Trials, litigation, etc
Brewer, Kennedy > Trials, litigation, etc
Criminal justice, Administration of > Mississippi
Judicial error > Mississippi
Trials Rape > Mississippi
Trials Murder > Mississippi
Summary: Relates the stories of two innocent men who were wrongly accused and convicted of crimes due largely to the legally condoned failures perpetrated by invalid forensic science and institutional racism. --Publisher.
Item Description: "February 2018"--Title page verso.
Carrier Form: xxii, 391 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN: 9781610396912 (hardcover) :
161039691X (hardcover)
Index Number: RA1025
CLC: D971.26
D771.288
Call Number: D771.288/B186
Contents: Foreword / by John Grisham -- The murder of Courtney Smith -- The murder of Christine Jackson -- Investigating the dead -- At the hands of persons unknown -- Setting the stage for the Cadaver King -- Rise of a fiefdom -- The West phenomenon -- Entrenchment -- The trial of Levon Brooks -- Keep that woman under control -- Vessels of wrath, fitted for destruction -- Prayers for relief -- The unraveling -- Redemption and insurrection -- No reckoning.

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