Bibliograph

Cadaver king and the country dentist, a true story of injustice in the American south, Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington ; foreword by John Grisham

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Cadaver king and the country dentist, a true story of injustice in the American south, Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington ; foreword by John Grisham

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Cadaver king and the country dentist

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1110103570

Responsibility statement

Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington ; foreword by John Grisham

Sub title

a true story of injustice in the American south

Summary

After two three-year-old girls were raped and murdered in rural Mississippi, law enforcement pursued and convicted two innocent men: Kennedy Brewer and Levon Brooks. Together they spent a combined thirty years in prison before finally being exonerated in 2008. Meanwhile, the real killer remained free. The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist recounts the story of how the criminal justice system allowed this to happen and of how two men, Dr. Steven Hayne and Dr. Michael West, built successful careers on the back of that structure. Together they became the go-to experts for prosecutors and helped put countless Mississippians in prison. But then some of those convictions began to fall apart. Here, Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington tell a haunting story of bad forensics, structural racism, and deep-rooted institutional failures

Target audience

adult

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