About the Book \;
\nIn the past thirty years alone\, more than 2\,800 innocent \;American \;prisoners &ndash\; their combined se ntences surpassing 25\,000 years &ndash\; have been exonerated and freed a fter being condemned for crimes they did not commit. Terrifyingly\, this n umber represents only a fraction of the actual number of persons wrongfull y accused and convicted over the same period. Renowned criminal defense an d civil rights attorney David Rudolf has spent decades defending the wrong fully accused. In \;American \;Injustice\, he draws from his years of experience in the \;American \;criminal legal system to shed l ight on the misconduct that exists at all levels of law enforcement and th e tragic consequences that follow in its wake. Tracing these themes throug h the lens of some of his most important cases &ndash\; including new deta ils from the Michael Peterson trial made famous in The Staircase &ndash\; Rudolf takes the reader inside crime scenes to examine forensic evidence l eft by perpetrators\; revisits unsolved murders to detail how and why the true culprits were never prosecuted\; reveals how confirmation bias leads police and prosecutors to employ tactics that make wrongful arrests and pr osecutions more likely\; and exposes how poverty and racism fundamentally distort the system. In \;American \;Injustice\, Rudolf gives a voi ce to those who have been the victim of wrongful accusations and shows in the starkest terms the human impact of legal wrongdoing. Effortlessly blen ding gripping true crime reporting and searing observations on civil right s in America\, \;American \;Injustice \;takes readers behind t he scenes of a justice system in desperate need of reform. -From the Publi sher
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