When we hear about the wrongfully convicted, media coverage usually ends with the person being released from prison or reaching a large settlement with the state. But for the exonerated,…
Aug 17, 2016 8:30 AM CDT
On the morning of March 21, 1981, the body of 19-year-old Michael Donald was found hanging from a tree in Mobile, Alabama. The years that followed saw the conviction of…
Jul 13, 2016 8:45 AM CDT
Author Allison Leotta has used her 12 years of experience as a federal sex-crimes prosecutor in Washington, D.C., to bring real-world issues into her fiction. Leotta has written five novels…
Jun 22, 2016 8:00 AM CDT
From the 18th century through the beginning of the 1970s, American officials had an incredibly versatile weapon to use against anyone seen as dangerous to society or as flouting societal…
May 11, 2016 8:15 AM CDT
A year before Netflix’s viral hit Making a Murderer was making headlines, Wisconsin prosecutor Michael Griesbach released his book The Innocent Killer: A True Story of a Wrongful Conviction and…
Mar 23, 2016 8:30 AM CDT
The Secret of Magic is a book within a book. It is both the title of Deborah Johnson’s 2015 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction-winning novel, and (in the world…
Dec 21, 2015 8:30 AM CST
Fairstein’s own prominent career prosecuting sex crimes for the district attorney’s office in Manhattan has greatly influenced her novels, as has her familiarity with New York City. She uses a…
Aug 26, 2015 4:23 PM CDT
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The New Yorker: “Mary Norris: Comma Queen” (video series)
Slate: “The Corrections: A delightful memoir by a New Yorker copy editor”
New York Times: “‘Between…
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