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020    006057464X 
020    9780060574642 
035    (OCoLC)71006815 
035    (Sirsi) i9780060574642 
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050 00 KF224.C66|bC66 2007 
082 00 345.764/22502523|222 
100 1  Cook, Kerry Max,|d1956- 
245 10 Chasing justice :|bmy story of freeing myself after two 
       decades on death row for a crime I didn't commit /|cKerry 
       Max Cook. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bWilliam Morrow,|c[2007] 
264  4 |c©2007 
300    x, 342 pages ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
505 0  Prologue : 1977 -- My family -- Pretrial, 1977 and 1978 --
       1978 trial -- Welcome to death row -- Through the killing 
       fields -- Men I could trust -- The more things stay the 
       same : pretrial, 1992 -- The 1992 trial -- Georgetown 
       rematch, 1994 -- Purgatory -- A November to remember -- 
       The choice -- Living life -- My travels. 
520    "Chronicles how a smalltown murder became one of the worst
       cases of prosecutorial misconduct in American history, and
       sent the author, an innocent man, to hell for 22 harrowing
       years--Cook is one of the longest-tenured death-row 
       prisoners to be freed. Convicted of killing a young woman 
       in Texas, Cook was sentenced to death in 1978 and served 
       two decades in a prison system so notoriously brutal and 
       violent that in 1980 a federal court ruled that serving 
       time in Texas's jails was "cruel and unusual punishment." 
       When an advocate and a crusading lawyer joined his 
       struggle in the 1990s, a series of retrials was forced. At
       last, in November 1996, Texas's highest appeals court 
       threw out Cook's conviction, citing overwhelming evidence 
       of police and prosecutorial misconduct. Finally in 1999 
       long-overlooked DNA evidence linked another man to the 
       rape and murder for which Cook had been convicted."--From 
       publisher description. 
600 10 Cook, Kerry Max,|d1956-|vTrials, litigation, etc. 
650  0 Trials (Rape)|zTexas|zTyler. 
650  0 Trials (Murder)|zTexas|zTyler. 
650  0 Judicial error|zTexas. 
650  0 Death row inmates|zTexas|vBiography. 
650  0 Prosecutorial misconduct|zTexas.  
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