Circumstantial Evidence: Death, Life, and Justice in a Southern Town - Hardcover

Earley, Pete

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0553095013 ISBN 13: 9780553095012

Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 1995

Synopsis

On a busy Saturday morning in November 1986, in the small southern town of Monroeville, Alabama, a beautiful white teenager named Ronda Morrison was found brutally murdered in the back room of the dry cleaning store where she worked. Several months later, Walter McMillian, a black man with no criminal record, was arrested and then convicted and sentenced to die in the electric chair in a trial that lasted less than three days. His guilt was seen as unquestionable until a young, black, Harvard-educated Yankee lawyer launched his own investigation into the murder. Thanks to Bryan Stevenson's unremitting efforts, six years after Walter McMillian was consigned to a cell on Alabama's death row, he walked out a free man. The state had been forced to acknowledge that investigators had used perjured testimony and withheld evidence from the defense that would have proved him innocent.

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Review:

Earley's reporting has the bracing flavor of fiction, as if he were a masterly novelist displaying his imagination in a crime thriller."
--The Washington Post

"Mr. Earley tells the story skillfully, weaving together interview material, investigators' reports and courtroom testimony to show how the system slowly, inexorably tightened a noose around Mr. McMillian's neck. Circumstantial Evidence leaves readers outraged."
--The New York Times Book Review

"A wonderful story. The new To Kill a Mockingbird."
--Gerry Spence, author of How to Argue and Win Every Time

From the Paperback edition.

About the Author:

Formerly a reporter for The Washington Post, Pete Earley is the author of Family of Spies: Inside the John Walker Spy Ring and Circumstantial Evidence: Death, Life, and Justice in a Southern Town, winner of the Edgar Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0553095013
• ISBN 13: 9780553095012
• Binding: Hardcover