| Description |
xi, 342 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-330) and index. |
| Contents |
Discovery -- The neighbor -- "I did not kill Michelle" -- The roommate -- "Everybody had me believing that I was guilty" -- Number three -- Three more -- Tice -- "Scrappy" -- "Guess who did that?" -- "I would have told them I handed Oswald the gun" -- "You got nothing to say, right?" -- Heavy artillery. |
| Summary |
Writer Wells and lawyer Leo team up here to produce a harrowing examination of wrongful convictions and, especially, of false confessions. Their target is a case involving the arrest of seven men for rape and murder, and the conviction and imprisonment of four of these men (and the continuing imprisonment of three of them), even after the man they identify as the true murderer has been convicted... The authors do an excellent job of setting up the crime and describing the panicked points of view of those arrested and convicted. The narrative then becomes a bit too hurried, long on detail but short on explication, as the authors move into more complex terrain. This study demands and rewards close reading and should inspire outrage. --Booklist. |
| Subject |
Bosko, Michelle, 1978-1997.
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Murder -- Virginia -- Norfolk -- Case studies.
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Rape -- Virginia -- Norfolk -- Case studies.
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Murder -- Investigation -- Virginia -- Norfolk.
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| Added Author |
Leo, Richard A., 1963-
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| ISBN |
9781595584014 hardcover |
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1595584013 hardcover |
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