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Only 5 quotes in goodreads … not compelling for readers to post more? He’s been on death row for only nine years. The average in this state is fifteen. Twenty is not unusual. There is an appeal bouncing around somewhere in the Eleventh…
His name is Mark Carter. White male, age thirty-three, lives in a small rental house in the town of Bayliss, ten miles from Verona. In my files I have photos of his house and truck and current live-in girlfriend. Eleven years ago, Carter…
His name is Mark Carter. White male, age thirty-three, lives in a small rental house in the town of Bayliss, ten miles from Verona. In my files I have photos of his house and truck and current live-in girlfriend. Eleven years ago, Carter…
Duke Russell was convicted in a backwater redneck town where half the jurors struggle to read and all were easily misled by two pompous and bogus experts put on the stand by Chad Falwright. The first was a retired small-town dentist from…
Her name is Vicki Gourley and she works in our little foundation’s office in the old section of Savannah. She founded Guardian Ministries twelve years ago with her own money. Vicki is a devout Christian who considers her work to be derived…
In the past ten years I’ve roamed virtually every highway throughout the Death Belt, from North Carolina to Texas. === He may have been only fifteen years old, but he was a tough kid who had seen it all. Battle-hardened in the ways of…
Exonerating Quincy Miller is our goal. Finding the real killer is not a priority. === Nothing against white folks, Post, but there are a lot of differences, you know? I listen to Motown, he likes that country crap. My bunk is neat as a…
“We haven’t really discussed fees, have we?” “Send me a bill. Then you can sue me.” === The white cops and white prosecutor and white jury said he killed a white lawyer. Didn’t happen that way. === I’m not sure why it is referred to as a…
Over a twenty-five-year career, Norwood testified in hundreds of criminal trials, always for the prosecution and always implicating the defendant. And always for a nice fee. === DNA testing arrived and put a serious dent in his business.…
Cook was a wild man, a hard-drinking redneck prone to brawling and chasing women. Nine years ago he caught the wrong one and married her. They spent a few rough years together taking turns moving in and out. Both had trouble keeping jobs…
Hers is another sad story of a kid who never had a chance. She was a crack baby who was bounced from foster homes to orphanages to in-laws in the projects. She dropped out of school, had a baby, lived with an aunt, worked here and there…
“I like my beer but always stayed away from drugs. I knew my daddy would shoot me.” === VERONA SITS IN the center of the state, in a desolate, sparsely populated flatland packed with piney woods. For its 5,000 inhabitants, a good job is…
“Back in the day, I had all the tort business sewed up in Ruiz County. All the good car wrecks, bad products, med-mal, bad faith, everything. If a person got injured, they showed up here, or sometimes I went to see them in the hospital.…
an innocent man perfectly framed. === my other clients: Shasta Briley on death row in North Carolina, convicted of arson that killed her three daughters; Billy Rayburn in Tennessee, convicted by the dubious science of what has become known…
A Florida real estate developer who moves conservatively? === They picked up a burlap sack filled with bloody chickens and hitched it to the zip line, then released it. As it swung down to the water it dripped blood, and this really…
Amos had smaller teeth but a fat lower lip that was always packed with a thick wad of smokeless tobacco; thus Dip. === “When Kenny was a kid he wanted to be a spy. Sort of odd for a black kid in a small town in Florida, but he loved spy…
DEA always hides behind the excuse that its investigations are active and ongoing. It doesn’t matter how old or inactive a case might be, the DEA’s procedure is to give you nothing. And they’ll go to court to protect their information.…
Nothing is easy in a prison. Rules are entrenched, or they are amended on the fly — whatever it takes to waste more time. === “Our mission is to get innocent people out of prison. We don’t have the time or resources to litigate from the…
Another county car with flashing lights arrives, and parks in front of DiLuca’s car. Two officers get out and glare at him as if he has just murdered some children. === His father was a bitter racist who despised all minorities and blamed…
He’s spent most of his life behind the fence and he survived, at times even prospered. His brothers are there, all sworn together in a vicious but protective gang. No work, no bills to pay. Three meals a day. Plenty of drugs, especially…
He’s wired with the latest bug, which can pick up a deer snorting thirty yards away. === Just observe the billboards along any busy Florida highway and you’ll almost wish you could get injured. Switch on early morning television and you’re…
Carmen zeros in on his colorful history of lying in court. When did the lying stop, or has it? Why should anyone believe that you’re not lying now? === For us to take a case there has to be a good chance of recovery of at least ten…