Almost Innocent: From Searching to Saved in America's Criminal Justice System - Hardcover

Brien, Shanti

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1645432033 ISBN 13: 9781645432036

Publisher: Amplify Publishing, 2021

Synopsis

"A criminal defense attorney specializing in appeals, Brien introduces us to nine defendants convicted of various crimes and explores the circumstances that informed their sentences, including inherent racial bias, socioeconomic disparity, the "War on Drugs," and a criminal code replete with inconsistent arrest, prosecutorial, and sentencing guidelines."--Booklist.

About this title

About the Author

Shanti Brien has a Bachelor’s degree in Ethnic Studies from UC Berkeley and a JD from Stanford Law School. She is an accomplished criminal defense attorney, with a specialty in appeals and post-conviction proceedings. She is co-Founder of Fogbreak Justice, an education and consulting company with the mission to transform the criminal justice system through experiences which reduce bias, promote fairness, build community trust, and create equity. Shanti writes about criminal justice and other social justice issues on Medium @shantibrightbrien. She co-authored June Jordan’s Poetry for the People: A Revolutionary Blueprint (Routledge, 1995); and contributed to The Road to Independence: 101 Women’s Journeys to Starting Their Own Law Firms (American Bar Association, 2011) and Lose the Cape: The Mom’s Guide to Becoming Socially and Politically Engaged (Kat Biggie Press, 2018). She lives in the East Bay with her husband and three kids.

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Dr. Moshe Kedan was born in Baghdad, Iraq. He immigrated to Israel as a child in 1951 when the Jewish population of Iraq was expelled. After graduating from Hebrew University Medical School in Jerusalem, he served as a military physician in the Israeli army for three years before coming to the United States. He completed his training in internal medicine and cardiology at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana and then set up his private practice in Clearwater, Florida. For over forty-five years, Dr. Kedan has provided comprehensive and individualized care to his patients. He observed that sexuality is overlooked and ignored by the medical profession despite playing a pivotal role in overall health and well-being. He therefore integrated discussion about sexuality as part of his routine medical examinations with all his patients. This has provided him with essential information to effectively diagnose and treat a range of medical conditions, to the benefit of his patients.

Edition details

• Publisher: Amplify Publishing
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1645432033
• ISBN 13: 9781645432036
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240