Chasing Justice

Cook, Kerry Max

"Chronicles how a smalltown murder became one of the worst cases of prosecutorial misconduct in American history, and sent the author, an innocent man, to hell for 22 harrowing years--Cook is one of the longest-tenured death-row prisoners to be freed. Convicted of killing a young woman in Texas, Cook was sentenced to death in 1978 and served two decades in a prison system so notoriously brutal and violent that in 1980 a federal court ruled that serving time in Texas´s jails was "cruel and unusual punishment." When an advocate and a crusading lawyer joined his struggle in the 1990s, a series of retrials was forced. At last, in November 1996, Texas´s highest appeals court threw out Cook´s conviction, citing overwhelming evidence of police and prosecutorialmisconduct. Finally in 1999 long-overlooked DNA evidence linked another man to the rape and murder for which Cook had been convicted.--From publisher description."--From source other than the Library of CongressAmerica´s longest-tenured death-row inmate to be freed after wrongful conviction describes the police and prosecutorial misconduct that led to his conviction for a 1977 murder, his 1999 DNA exoneration, and his subsequent work as an advocate for legal reform.

Editora: William Morrow & Co
ISBN: 006057464X
Número de páginas: 342
Acabamento: 
HARDCOVER
Local de Publicação: United States