Circumstantial Evidence - Death, Life, and Justice in a Southern Town (Paperback)

Pete Earley's "The Hot House" gave America a riveting, uncompromising look at the nation's most notorious prison--the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas--a book that "Kirkus Reviews" called a "fascinating white-knuckle tour of hell, brilliantly reported." Now Earley shows us a different, even more intimate view of justice--and injustice--American-style.
In Monroeville, Alabama, in the fall of 1986, a pretty junior college student was found murdered in the back of the dry cleaning shop where she worked. Several months later, Walter "Johnny D." McMillian, a black man with no criminal record, was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death for the crime. As McMillian sat in his cell on Alabama's death row, a young black lawyer named Bryan Stevenson took up his own investigation into the murder of Ronda Morrison. Finding a trial tainted by procedural mistakes, conflicting eyewitness accounts, and outright perjury, he was determined to see McMillian go free--even if it took the most unconventional means...

"From the Paperback edition."

General

Imprint:	Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 1995
First published:	August 1995
Authors:	Pete Earley
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	528
ISBN-13:	978-0-553-76356-0
Categories:	Books > Fiction > True stories > Crime
LSN:	0-553-76356-3
Barcode:	9780553763560

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