Ghost of the innocent man : a true story of trial and redemption / Benjamin Rachlin.
2017
KF9756 .R29 2017 (Mapit)
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Ghost of the innocent man : a true story of trial and redemption / Benjamin Rachlin.
Edition
First edition.
Imprint
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
Copyright
©2017.
Description
xi, 387 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Formatted Contents Note
Prologue: 1987
Firm and unequivocal
Chris
Only a few additional weeks
Lake
K and O
Rosen
Some ideas of persecution
Newman, Coleman, and Weitzel
The benefit of every reasonable inference
A problem for everyone
One of those cases
Nobody could be against this
In favorable times and difficult times
Their different individual viewpoints
We must use our judgment
The elephant in the room
Does not admit to crime
An extraordinary procedure
A situation not of his making
We recommend the closing of this file
Some concerns about his medical condition
Any cases where evidence had gone missing
In three dimensions
I can tell that this lady have went over my case
Everybody knows he didn't do it
The first real test
They will try to get me to sign papers
The last avenue I can think of to pursue
He spoke about going through changes
Send him a questionnaire
If they had anything, it can't match nothing from me
What she said happened, happened
A lawyer I've never met
A type of panel I've never seen
A long time coming
Cases of innocence still open.
Firm and unequivocal
Chris
Only a few additional weeks
Lake
K and O
Rosen
Some ideas of persecution
Newman, Coleman, and Weitzel
The benefit of every reasonable inference
A problem for everyone
One of those cases
Nobody could be against this
In favorable times and difficult times
Their different individual viewpoints
We must use our judgment
The elephant in the room
Does not admit to crime
An extraordinary procedure
A situation not of his making
We recommend the closing of this file
Some concerns about his medical condition
Any cases where evidence had gone missing
In three dimensions
I can tell that this lady have went over my case
Everybody knows he didn't do it
The first real test
They will try to get me to sign papers
The last avenue I can think of to pursue
He spoke about going through changes
Send him a questionnaire
If they had anything, it can't match nothing from me
What she said happened, happened
A lawyer I've never met
A type of panel I've never seen
A long time coming
Cases of innocence still open.
Summary
"When the final gavel clapped in a rural southern courtroom in the summer of 1988, Willie J. Grimes, a gentle spirit with no record of violence, was shocked and devastated to be convicted of first-degree rape and sentenced to life imprisonment. Here is the story of this everyman and his extraordinary quarter-century-long journey to freedom, told in breathtaking and sympathetic detail, from the botched evidence and suspect testimony that led to his incarceration to the tireless efforts to prove his innocence and the identity of the true perpetrator. These were spearheaded by his relentless champion, Christine Mumma, a cofounder of North Carolina's Innocence Inquiry Commission. That commission-unprecedented at its inception in 2006-remains a model organization unlike any other in the country, and one now responsible for a growing number of exonerations."-- Provided by the publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-376) and index.
Location
STA
Call Number
KF9756 .R29 2017
Language
English
ISBN
9780316311496 (hardcover)
0316311499 (hardcover)
0316311499 (hardcover)
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