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    Illusion of justice : inside Making a murderer and America's broken system / Jerome F. Buting.

    • Title:Illusion of justice : inside Making a murderer and America's broken system / Jerome F. Buting.
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    • Author/Creator:Buting, Jerome F., author.
    • Published/Created:New York, NY : Harper, [2017]
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Avery, Steven--Trials, litigation, etc.
      Dassey, Brendan--Trials, litigation, etc.
      Trials (Rape)--Wisconsin.
      Rape--Investigation--Wisconsin.
      Trials (Murder)--Wisconsin.
      Murder--Investigation--Wisconsin.
      Judicial error--Wisconsin.
      Criminal justice, Administration of--United States.
      Criminal defense lawyers--United States--Biography.
    • Subject(s):Making a murderer (Television program)
    • Genre/Form: Biographies.
    • Edition:First edition.
    • Description:339 pages ; 24 cm
    • Summary:"Interweaving his account of the Steven Avery trial at the heart of Making a Murderer with other high profile cases from his criminal defense career, attorney Jerome F. Buting explains the flaws in America's criminal justice system and lays out a provocative, persuasive blue-print for reform. Over his career, Jerome F. Buting has spent hundreds of hours in courtrooms representing defendants in criminal trials. When he agreed to join Dean Strang as co-counsel for the defense in Steven A. Avery vs. State of Wisconsin, he knew a tough fight lay ahead. But, as he reveals in Illusion of Justice, no-one could have predicted just how tough and twisted that fight would be--or that it would become the center of the documentary Making a Murderer, which made Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey household names and thrust Buting into the spotlight. Buting's powerful, riveting boots-on-the-ground narrative of Avery's and Dassey's cases becomes a springboard to examine the shaky integrity of law enforcement and justice in the United States, which Buting has witnessed firsthand for more than 35 years. From his early career as a public defender to his success overturning wrongful convictions working with the Innocence Project, his story provides a compelling expert view into the high-stakes arena of criminal defense law; the difficulties of forensic science; and a horrifying reality of biased interrogations, coerced or false confessions, faulty eyewitness testimony, official misconduct, and more. Combining narrative reportage with critical commentary and personal reflection, Buting explores his professional and personal motivations, career-defining cases--including his shocking fifteen-year-long fight to clear the name of another man wrongly accused and convicted of murder--and what must happen if our broken system is to be saved. Taking a place beside Just Mercy and The New Jim Crow, Illusion of Justice is a tour-de-force from a relentless and eloquent advocate for justice who is determined to fulfill his professional responsibility and, in the face of overwhelming odds, make America's judicial system work as it is designed to do"-- Provided by publisher.
      "In contextualizing the complex, morally ambiguous true crime story driving Netflix sensation Making a Murderer--and weaving in many other cases from his colorful career--this book by Steven Avery's defense attorney, Jerome Buting, will combine top-tier reportage, untold aspects of the Avery and Brendan Dassey trials, and personal memoir with a provocative, ground-breaking call for reform within America's criminal justice system, which in principle presumes innocence, but in practice presumes guilt. Description"-- Provided by publisher.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
    • ISBN:9780062569318 hardcover
      0062569317 hardcover
      9780062569325 paperback
      0062569325 paperback
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. I Pixel Rarely Makes the Picture
      pt. II Presumed Guilty
      pt. III Just a Lawyer
      pt. IV One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
      pt. V Swimming Upstream
      pt. VI Deja Vu
      pt. VII Caught in a Five-Hundred-Year Rain
      pt. VIII Thinking Out Loud.
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