Mean Justice: A Town's Terror, a Prosecutor's Power, a Betrayal of Innocence - Hardcover

Humes, Edward

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684831740 ISBN 13: 9780684831749

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1999

Synopsis

Exposing the dark side of the American justice system, the author focuses on a California town where the battle against crime resulted in prosecutorial corruption, false accusations, and wrongful imprisonment. Reprint.

About this title

Review:

"Los Angeles Times" This is the same seamless, honest, and also lyrical writing that earned Humes a Pulitzer Prize.

About the Author:

Edward Humes was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1989 for specialized reporting, and has received a PEN Center U.S.A. West Award for reseach nonfiction. He is the author of four other nonfiction works, Buried Secrets, Murder with a Badge, No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court, and Mississippi Mud. He lives in Southern California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0684831740
• ISBN 13: 9780684831749
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 491