Erle Stanley Gardner

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The Court of Last Resort: The True Story of a Team of Crime Experts Who Fought to Save the Wrongfully ConvictedPaperback, 9 May 2017

The Court of Last Resort: The True Story of a Team of Crime Experts Who Fought to Save the Wrongfully Convicted
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Print Length
346 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Open Road Media
Date Published
9 May 2017
ISBN-10
1504044398
ISBN-13
9781504044394

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Edgar Award Winner: True stories of miscarriages of justice, legal battles, and landmark reversals, by the creator of Perry Mason.

In 1945, Erle Stanley Gardner, noted attorney and author of the popular Perry Mason mysteries, was contacted by an overwhelmed California public defender who believed his doomed client was innocent. William Marvin Lindley had been convicted of the rape and murder of a young girl along the banks of the Yuba River, and was awaiting execution at San Quentin. After reviewing the case, Gardner agreed to help--it seemed the fate of the "Red-Headed Killer" hinged on the testimony of a colorblind witness.

Gardner's intervention sparked the Court of Last Resort. The Innocence Project of its day, this ambitious and ultimately successful undertaking was devoted to investigating, reviewing, and reversing wrongful convictions owing to poor legal representation, prosecutorial abuses, biased police activity, bench corruption, unreliable witnesses, and careless forensic-evidence testimony. The crimes: rape, murder, kidnapping, and manslaughter. The prisoners: underprivileged and vulnerable men wrongly convicted and condemned to life sentences or death row with only one hope--the devotion of Erle Stanley Gardner and the Court of Last Resort.

Featuring Gardner's most damning cases of injustice from across the country, The Court of Last Resort won the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime. Originating as a monthly column in Argosy magazine, it was produced as a dramatized court TV show for NBC.

Product Details

Author:
Erle Stanley Gardner
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
9 May 2017
Dimensions:
20.32 x 13.34 x 1.96 cm
ISBN-10:
1504044398
ISBN-13:
9781504044394
Language:
English
Pages:
346
Publisher:
Weight:
394.63 gm

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