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Book SynopsisA bracing account of abuses of power and corruption in the criminal justice system.' The GuardianFrom the fearless defense attorney and civil rights lawyer who rose to fame with Netflix's The Staircase comes an essential examination of America's corrupt and abusive criminal justice system.In the past thirty years, more than 2,700 innocent American prisonerstheir combined jail sentences adding up to almost 25,000 yearshave been exonerated and freed. Terrifyingly, this number represents only a small fraction of the number of persons wrongfully convicted each year. As a result, US jails and prisons are packed with men and women who should not be there, but for crooked police, false testimony, shoddy investigators, vindictive judges, bogus expert witnesses or, far too often, the colour of their skin and their economic condition.Renowned criminal defense attorney and civil rights lawyer David Rudolf has spent his career defending the wrongfully accused. In American Injustice, he draws from
Trade Review‘A bracing account of abuses of power and corruption in the criminal justice system.’ The Guardian
