The cadaver king and the country dentist : a true story of injustice in the American South / Radley...
The cadaver king and the country dentist : a true story of injustice in the American South / Radley...
The cadaver king and the country dentist : a true story of injustice in the American South / Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington ; foreword by John Grisham.
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Publisher
New York : PublicAffairs, 2018.
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G 2018/4139
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Language
English
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Physical content
xxii, 391 pages ; 25 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
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...
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Publisher
New York : PublicAffairs, 2018.
Edition
First edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2018.
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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.
"A shocking and deeply reported account of the persistent plague of institutional racism and junk forensic science in our criminal justice system, and its devastating effect on innocent lives. After two three-year-old girls were raped and murdered in rural Mississippi, law enforcement pursued and convicted two innocent men: Kennedy Brewer and Levon...
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The cadaver king and the country dentist : a true story of injustice in the American South / Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington ; foreword by John Grisham.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-391).
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©2018
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G 2018/4139
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74VKVAQlZaoy
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVAQlZaoy
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ISBN
161039691X hardcover
9781610396912 hardcover
DDC
614.109762
MMS ID
991024176984902626
