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The Price of Mercy Unfair Trials, a Violent System, and a Public Defender's Search for Justice in America | 2.14 MB
Title: The Price of Mercy
Author: Emily Galvin Almanza
Category: Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Crimes & Criminals, Penology, Political Science
Language: English | 384 Pages | ISBN: 0593799119
Description:
A former public defender takes us behind the closed doors of America's criminal courts, revealing how the institutions that claim to protect us are doing the exact opposite-and offering a blueprint for finally fixing it.
"A searing, compassionate, and utterly necessary book that pulls back the curtain with the clarity of a lawyer and the heart of someone who's seen the criminal legal system's devastating consequences up close."-Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow
As Americans, we are told a rose-tinted story about our criminal courts-that these are the hallowed halls of justice, that the purpose of our legal process is to find the truth, and that those who enforce the law are both equitable and heroic. But what if the reality is purposefully obscured to hide something rotten at the system's core?
In The Price of Mercy , attorney and former public defender Emily Galvin Almanza weaves hard data...
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