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"A crusading legal scholar exposes the powerful psychological forces that undermine our criminal justice system--and affect us all Our nation is founded on the notion that the law is impartial, that legal cases are won or lost on the basis of evidence, careful reasoning and nuanced argument. But they may, in fact, turn on the temperature of the courtroom, the camera angle of a defendant's taped confession, or a simple word choice or gesture during...
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Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 9
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218 p. : ill., ports. ; 26 cm.
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Uses the example of five famous trials to examine the way an individual's right to a fair trial can be threatened when people are tempted to abandon their principles in the name of safety.
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2021.
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288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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"This inspirational memoir serves as a call to action from prison reform activist Yusef Salaam, of the Exonerated Five, that will inspire ... to turn our stories into tools for change in the pursuit of racial justice ... No one's life is the sum of the worst things that happened to them, and during Yusef Salaam's seven years of wrongful incarceration as one of the Central Park Five, he grew from child to man, and gained a spiritual perspective on...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
386 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. The story that I thought was my life didn't start on the I was born. Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he's seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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xiii, 201 pages ; 22 cm
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"The wrenching, and inspiring, story of a fourteen-year-old sentenced to life in prison, of the extraordinary relationship that developed between him and the woman he shot, and of his release after twenty-six years of imprisonment through the efforts of America's greatest contemporary legal activist, Bryan Stevenson. Here is the story of a poor black kid from the toughest neighborhood of Tampa, Florida, who at age eleven began "jacking" (stealing)...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
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"Launching a propulsive middle grade nonfiction series, a young woman shares her harrowing experience of being wrongly accused of terrorism. Adama Bah grew up in East Harlem after immigrating from Conakry, Guinea, and was deeply connected to her community and the people who lived there. But as a thirteen-year-old after the events of September 11, 2001, she began experiencing discrimination and dehumanization as prejudice toward Muslim people grew....
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c2013
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1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Chronicles America's complicated perceptions of race and crime through the story of the "Central Park 5"--A group of minority teenagers wrongfully convicted and jailed for brutally raping a white woman in New York.
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