| Description |
viii, 258 pages ; 25 cm |
| Summary |
It was the worst travesty of American justice since the infamous Scottsboro trials in Alabama more than half a century earlier: Four young men from suburban Chicago - boyhood friends with no history of violence - were railroaded into prison for a 1978 interracial kidnapping, rape, and double murder they did not commit, and collectively spent sixty-five years in prison, two of the men on Death Row. But investigative journalists David Protess and Rob Warden took the men seriously and came to believe in their innocence. Protess and Warden enlisted a group of idealistic students, a street-smart private investigator, a maverick newspaper columnist, and a crack team of volunteer lawyers in the cause and launched a campaign to save the innocent men. The team gathered substantial new evidence that eventually exonerated the Ford Heights Four and brought the true killers to trial, delivering on the U.S. Constitution's promise of justice |
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A Promise of Justice is at once an unflinching look at a system capable of condemning innocent men and an uplifting story of human resilience, courage, and hope in the face of despair. It is as fast-paced and spellbinding as the best crime fiction but it is all true |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Murder -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Case studies.
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African American prisoners -- Illinois -- Case studies.
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Judicial error -- Illinois -- Case studies.
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| Author |
Warden, Rob.
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| LC no. |
97036431 |
| ISBN |
0786862947 alkaline paper |
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