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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
An innocent man is about to be executed. Only a guilty man can save him. For every innocent man sent to prison, there is a guilty one left on the outside. He doesn’t understand how the police and prosecutors got the wrong man, and he certainly doesn’t care. He just can’t believe his good luck. Time passes and he realizes that the mistake will not be corrected: the authorities believe in their case and are determined to get a conviction. He may...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"In the small Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no clues. There were no witnesses, no one with a motive. But the police soon came to suspect Quincy Miller, a young black man who was once a client of Russo's. Quincy was tried, convicted, and sent to prison for life. For twenty-two years he languished in prison, maintaining his innocence ... In desperation,...
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Language
English
Description
Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of our criminal justice system. One of his first cases was that of Walter McMillian, a young man who was sentenced to die for a notorious murder he insisted he didn’t commit. The case drew Bryan into a tangle...
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Language
English
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction: a true crime story that will terrify anyone who believes in the presumption of innocence. • LOOK FOR THE NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES
“Both an American tragedy and [Grisham’s] strongest legal thriller yet, all the more gripping because it happens to be true.”—Entertainment Weekly
In...
“Both an American tragedy and [Grisham’s] strongest legal thriller yet, all the more gripping because it happens to be true.”—Entertainment Weekly
In...
Author
Series
King Oliver novels volume 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Joe King Oliver was one of the NYPD's finest investigators, until, dispatched to arrest a well-heeled car thief, he is framed for assault by his enemies within the NYPD, a charge which lands him in solitary at Rikers Island. A decade later, King is a private detective, running his agency with the help of his teenage daughter, Aja-Denise. Broken by the brutality he suffered and committed in equal measure while behind bars, his work and his daughter...
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 27
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"In a Virginia penitentiary, Alex Cross and his partner, John Sampson, witness the execution of a killer they helped convict. Hours later, they are called to the scene of a copycat crime. A note signed 'M' rests on the corpse. 'You messed up big time, Dr. Cross.' Was an innocent man just put to death? Alex soon realizes he may have much to answer for, as 'M' lures the detective out of the capital to the sites of multiple homicides, all marked with...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
Elizabeth Black is a hero, a cop who single-handedly rescued a young girl from a locked cellar and shot her kidnappers dead. But she is also a cop with a past, and more than one secret. Adrian Wall is finally free after thirteen brutal years in prison. The very first room he walks into, a boy with a gun is waiting to kill him. Adrian was safer behind bars. And deep in the forest, on the alter of an abandoned church, a body cools in pale linen. Another...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
While writing letters to Innocence X, a justice-seeking project, asking them to help her father, an innocent black man on death row, teenaged Tracy takes on another case when her brother is accused of killing his white girlfriend.
10) Stillwater
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (2 hr., 19 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An American oil-rig worker goes to Marseilles, France, to save his daughter, who is imprisoned for a murder she claims she did not commit.
11) L'argent
Series
Criterion collection volume 886
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Language
Français
Description
A counterfeit 500-franc note sets off a chain of greed, corruption, and betrayal that leads to an innocent man's arrest and his eventual destruction.
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
261 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A decade ago, eight-year-old Aubree Lansing peeked from her hiding place in the closet and saw the unthinkable: a dead body on her bedroom floor and a man standing close by with a gun in his bloodstained hands. A man she called daddy. Aubree's courageous testimony during the murder trial led to a hefty prison sentence for Stone Lansing -- and placed a heavy weight on his daughter's heart. When Aubree's mother married Reginald Kern, one of Stone's...
13) Gone again
Author
Series
Jack Swyteck novels volume 12
Language
English
Description
Sashi Burgette vanished three years ago on her way to school. The night after the teenager’s disappearance, ex-con Dylan Kyle was stopped for drunk driving. An article of Sashi’s clothing was found in his truck, and a police videotape of his drunken explanation under interrogation sealed his fate at trial. Now, just days from Kyle’s execution, Sashi’s mother visits Jack Swyteck, doing pro bono work at the Freedom Institute, and delivers shocking...
Author
Series
Puzzle lady mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
307 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When nerdy cruciverbalist Harvey Beerbaum throws a birthday bash for Cora Felton at the Bakerhaven Library, it's no surprise that the centerpiece, a huge cake decorated like a crossword puzzle, is a complete bust--until a corpse thrown from the second floor stacks hits it dead center and fills in 14 down. Cora may hate birthdays almost as much as she hates crossword puzzles--but when it comes to solving crimes, no one can hold a candle to the Puzzle...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
8 audio discs (approximately 9 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. Stunned, confused, and only twenty-nine years old, Hinton knew that it was a case of mistaken identity and believed that the truth would prove his innocence and ultimately set him free. But with no money and a different system of justice for a poor black man in the South, Hinton was sentenced to death by electrocution. He spent his first three years...
16) The fortune men
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • Based on a true event, this novel is “a blues song cut straight from the heart ... about the unjust death of an innocent Black man caught up in a corrupt system” (Walter Mosley, best-selling author of Devil in a Blue Dress).
In Cardiff, Wales in 1952, Mahmood Mattan, a young Somali sailor, is accused of a crime he did not commit: the brutal killing of Violet Volacki, a shopkeeper from Tiger...
In Cardiff, Wales in 1952, Mahmood Mattan, a young Somali sailor, is accused of a crime he did not commit: the brutal killing of Violet Volacki, a shopkeeper from Tiger...
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 19
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In his role as DA, [Wes] Farrell had helped put away Paul Riley, a young man charged for the rape and murder of his then-girlfriend Dana Rush, only for Riley to later be released from his life sentence--after eleven years of time served--when the Exoneration Initiative unearthed DNA evidence that pinned the crime on someone else. But just months after walking free, Riley is murdered at his home, and Farrell is roped back into defending the prime...
Author
Series
Cat on the run volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
187 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"What happens when the world's biggest cat video star gets accused of a crime she didn't commit? She becomes a cat on the run, that's what. But how do you avoid capture and prove your innocence when you are the most famous feline on the planet? Well, it ain't easy. Follow Princess Beautiful--for that is her name--as she goes from meme megastar #1 to public enemy #1 and cheer her on as she fights to clear her name. Is she a super villain? An internet-famous...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A reporter is sent to chronicle the last days of an anti-death penalty activist now living on death row, after having been convicted of the murder of a fellow activist. The reporter grows to suspect he may have been framed, and sets out to verify her doubts.
Author
Series
Jane Whitefield volume 7
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
274 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jane spirits James Shelby, a man unjustly convicted of his wife's murder, out of the heavily guarded criminal court building in downtown Los Angeles. But the price of Shelby's freedom is high. Within minutes, men posing as police officers kidnap Jane and, when she tries to escape, shoot her. Jane's captors are employees of the man who really killed Shelby's wife. He believes he won't be safe until Shelby is dead, and his men will do anything to force...
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