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BOOK
Title The court of last resort / Erle Stanley Gardner
Imprint New York, NY Open Road Media, 2017
©1954

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Descript vi, 333 pages ; 21 cm
Note "The true story of a team of crime experts who fought to save the wrongfully convicted"-Cover
"In 1945, Erle Stanley Gardner, noted attorney and author of the popular Perry Mason mysteries, was contacted by an overwhelmed California public defender who believed his doomed client was innocent. William Marvin Lindley had been convicted of the rape and murder of a young girl along the banks of the Yuba River, and was awaiting execution at San Quentin. After reviewing his case, Gardner agreed to help-- it seemed the fate of the "Red-Headed Killer" hinged on the testimony of a colorblind witness. Gardner's intervention sparked the Court of Last Resort. The Innocence Project of its day, this ambitious and ultimately successful undertaking was devoted to investigating, reviewing, and reversing wrongful convictions owing to poor legal representation, prosecutorial abuses, biased police activity, bench corruption, unreliable witnesses, and careless forensic-evidence testimony. The crimes: rape, murder, kidnapping, and manslaughter. The prisoners: underprivileged and vulnerable men wrongly convicted and condemned to life sentences or death row with only one hope-- the devotion of Erle Stanley Gardner and the Court of Last Resort"--Back cover
Originally published : New York : Pocket Books, 1954
Subject Bevis (juridik)
Brottsutredning
Rättegång
Criminal investigation -- United States
Evidence, Criminal -- United States
Trials (Murder) -- United States
Criminal investigation.
Evidence, Criminal.
Trials (Murder)
United States
Classmark 347/.012
ISBN/ISSN 9781504044394 (paperback)
1504044398 (paperback)
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