{"product_id":"justice-on-fire-the-kansas-city-firefighters-case-and-the-railroading-of-the-marlborough-five-9780700626717","title":"Justice on Fire  The Kansas City Firefighters","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a powerful story that needs to be told—and O’Connor knows how to tell it, flashing his narrative chops from the get-go with a riveting description of the explosions. As he acknowledges, O’Connor is an ‘advocate for the five convicted,’ and it is important to view the book through that lens.\"\" - Daniel S. Medwed, author of \u003ci\u003eProsecution Complex: America’s Race to Convict and Its Impact on the Innocent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"In \u003ci\u003eJustice on Fire\u003c\/i\u003e J. Patrick O’Connor shows, step-by-step, how the American criminal justice system can fail. The tragic deaths of six Kansas City firefighters in a huge commercial explosion caused by arson generated intense pressure to solve the case. Likely perpetrators slipped away in a botched investigation by local police. Five years later the investigation was turned over to the federal ATF. After a TV special broadcast a $50,000 reward, a horde of jailhouse snitches and people from the rundown Marlborough community adjacent to the blast site came forward with wild and inconsistent stories based on rumor. Federal investigators and prosecutors, using hardball tactics, pieced together a conviction against the Marlborough Five that was based on a record number of informers. Most were paid off with reduced sentences or slivers of reward money. Trial testimony was wildly inconsistent, but a biased federal judge thwarted every defense attempt to penetrate the false testimony. In the years since, many of the witnesses have recanted and a federal investigation reported that two ‘other’ perpetrators—which the government refuses to name’exist. One of the Marlborough Five died in prison and one has been released based on his status as a juvenile sentenced to life imprisonment. Three others sit in prison while the palpable facts of an obvious miscarriage of justice are hidden from view by federal authorities more concerned with saving face than doing justice.\"\" - Marvin Zalman, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eWrongful Conviction and Criminal Justice Reform: Making Justice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrologue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart I. Framing the Marlborough Five\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. The Last Alarm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. What Whent Wrong?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. Investigating the Crime\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. Investigating the Marlborough Neighborhood\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5. The Marlborough Five\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6. Indicted the Marlborough Five\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7. The Trial Opens\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8. the Case against the Marlborough Five\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e9. The Defense\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10. Closing Argument and Verdict\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e11. Sentencing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart II. The Search for Justice\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e12. Appeals\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e13. Affidavits of Recantation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e14. Mike McGraw\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e15. The Department of Justice Investigation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e16. Life in Prison\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e17. Interviewing the Original KCPD Detectives\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e18. Resentencing of Bryan Sheppard\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e19. New Evidence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCast of Main Characters\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTimeline\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"University Press of Kansas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49526185754967,"sku":"9780700626717","price":32.21,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780700626717.jpg?v=1731863271","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/justice-on-fire-the-kansas-city-firefighters-case-and-the-railroading-of-the-marlborough-five-9780700626717","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}