The Resource The cadaver king and the country dentist : a true story of injustice in the American South, Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington ; foreword by John Grisham
The 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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- Summary
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- Relates the stories of two innocent men who were wrongly accused and convicted of crimes due largely to the legally condoned failures perpetrated by invalid forensic science and institutional racism. --Publisher
- "A shocking and deeply reported account of the persistent plague of institutional racism and junk forensic science in our criminal justice system, and its devastating effect on innocent lives. 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. [This book] 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. For nearly two decades, Hayne, a medical examiner, performed the vast majority of Mississippi's autopsies, while his friend Dr. West, a local dentist, pitched himself as a forensic jack-of-all-trades. 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 the haunting story of how the courts and Mississippi's death investigation system--a relic of the Jim Crow era--failed to deliver justice for its citizens. The authors argue that bad forensics, structural racism, and institutional failures are at fault, raising sobering questions about our ability and willingness to address these crucial issues."--Dust jacket
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xxii, 391 pages
- Contents
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- The murder of Courtney Smith
- The murder of Christine Jackson
- Investigating the dead
- At the hands of persons unknown
- Setting the stage for the Cadaver King
- Rise of a fiefdom
- The West phenomenon
- Entrenchment
- The trial of Levon Brooks
- Keep that woman under control
- Vessels of wrath, fitted for destruction
- Prayers for relief
- The unraveling
- Redemption and insurrection
- No reckoning
- Isbn
- 9781610396912
- Label
- The cadaver king and the country dentist : a true story of injustice in the American South
- Title
- The cadaver king and the country dentist
- Title remainder
- a true story of injustice in the American South
- Statement of responsibility
- Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington ; foreword by John Grisham
- Subject
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- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
- Hayne, Steven, (Forensic pathologist)
- Judicial error -- Mississippi
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
- TRUE CRIME / Forensics
- Brewer, Kennedy -- Trials, litigation, etc
- Trials (Rape) -- Mississippi
- True crime stories
- West, Michael, (Dentist)
- Trials (Murder) -- Mississippi
- Brooks, Levon, 1959- -- Trials, litigation, etc
- Criminal justice, Administration of -- Mississippi
- Language
- eng
- Summary
-
- Relates the stories of two innocent men who were wrongly accused and convicted of crimes due largely to the legally condoned failures perpetrated by invalid forensic science and institutional racism. --Publisher
- "A shocking and deeply reported account of the persistent plague of institutional racism and junk forensic science in our criminal justice system, and its devastating effect on innocent lives. 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. [This book] 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. For nearly two decades, Hayne, a medical examiner, performed the vast majority of Mississippi's autopsies, while his friend Dr. West, a local dentist, pitched himself as a forensic jack-of-all-trades. 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 the haunting story of how the courts and Mississippi's death investigation system--a relic of the Jim Crow era--failed to deliver justice for its citizens. The authors argue that bad forensics, structural racism, and institutional failures are at fault, raising sobering questions about our ability and willingness to address these crucial issues."--Dust jacket
- Cataloging source
- NcU/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Balko, Radley
- Dewey number
- 614/.109762
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- RA1025.H38
- LC item number
- B35 2018
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Carrington, Tucker
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Hayne, Steven
- West, Michael
- Brooks, Levon
- Brewer, Kennedy
- Criminal justice, Administration of
- Judicial error
- Trials (Rape)
- Trials (Murder)
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
- TRUE CRIME / Forensics
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
- Label
- The cadaver king and the country dentist : a true story of injustice in the American South, Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington ; foreword by John Grisham
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-391)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The murder of Courtney Smith -- The murder of Christine Jackson -- Investigating the dead -- At the hands of persons unknown -- Setting the stage for the Cadaver King -- Rise of a fiefdom -- The West phenomenon -- Entrenchment -- The trial of Levon Brooks -- Keep that woman under control -- Vessels of wrath, fitted for destruction -- Prayers for relief -- The unraveling -- Redemption and insurrection -- No reckoning
- Control code
- ocn965806090
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xxii, 391 pages
- Isbn
- 9781610396912
- Lccn
- 2017009508
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)965806090
- Label
- The cadaver king and the country dentist : a true story of injustice in the American South, Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington ; foreword by John Grisham
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-391)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The murder of Courtney Smith -- The murder of Christine Jackson -- Investigating the dead -- At the hands of persons unknown -- Setting the stage for the Cadaver King -- Rise of a fiefdom -- The West phenomenon -- Entrenchment -- The trial of Levon Brooks -- Keep that woman under control -- Vessels of wrath, fitted for destruction -- Prayers for relief -- The unraveling -- Redemption and insurrection -- No reckoning
- Control code
- ocn965806090
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xxii, 391 pages
- Isbn
- 9781610396912
- Lccn
- 2017009508
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)965806090
Subject
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
- Hayne, Steven, (Forensic pathologist)
- Judicial error -- Mississippi
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
- TRUE CRIME / Forensics
- Brewer, Kennedy -- Trials, litigation, etc
- Trials (Rape) -- Mississippi
- True crime stories
- West, Michael, (Dentist)
- Trials (Murder) -- Mississippi
- Brooks, Levon, 1959- -- Trials, litigation, etc
- Criminal justice, Administration of -- Mississippi
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