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Read [Tom Wells, Richard A. Leo Book] # The Wrong Guys: Murder, False Confessions, and the Norfolk Four Online * PDF eBook or Kindle ePUB free. The Wrong Guys: Murder, False Confessions, and the Norfolk Four Though the real perpetrator has since been convicted, three of the four remain in prison today, attesting to the powerful role confessions—even false ones—play in our criminal justice system, where they typically trump fact, reason, and common sense.Writer Tom Wells and law professor Richard Leo masterfully interweave a narrative covering the unfolding of the case with an exploration of topics ranging from coercive interrogation, police perjury ("testilying"), and prosecutorial polit
| Title | : | The Wrong Guys: Murder, False Confessions, and the Norfolk Four |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.26 (536 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1595584013 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 342 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-13 |
| Language | : | English |
(Nov.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. The authors passionately relate the case of the Norwalk Four as a tragic one in which facts were not allowed to interfere with a good theory, and the justice system failed to do justice. Dick Jr., who boarded with Williams, and Eric Wilson and Derek Tice, faced similar treatment, and all pleaded guilty. The DNA evidence and a letter in the police's hands actually pointed to another, far more credible suspect, but police clung to their theory, and Williams plea-bargained and the others were convicted at trial. From Publishers Weekly In a case echoing John Grisham's The Innocent Man, two experts in interrogation and false confessions unfold the story of four men who, under duress by the police, all pleaded guilty to the same crime. But with DNA evidence not supporting his guilt, police, rather than letting Williams go, looked for accomplices. In 199
A Truly mind-boggling story about a massive miscarriage of justice Amazon Customer I had a keen interest in reading this book. I was in the Navy stationed with two of the four accused in this book--Danial Williams and Joseph Dick Jr. When I was stationed aboard the USS Saipan, we had heard a story about this on the news, but--at the time--didn't think anything of it--if they did it, they did it. Not too long ago, I heard abou. Larry A. Tice said The scary truth about what can happen to innocent people by police. The Wrong Guys: Murder, False Confessions, and the Norfolk FourTom Wells and Richard Leo did a great job of research in order to present a horror story of injustice perpetrated on innocent men by, in my opinion, an unscrupulous police detective with a history of coercive confessions. A story of one man saying that he acted alone with DNA eviden. Lisa J. Steele said Makes you Sad, Makes you Angry. The opening of the The Wrong Guys is like watching a car crash in slow motion. Billy Bosko comes home from his ship to find his young wife murdered. Suspicion quickly fixes on Danial Williams, a neighbor, who, the authors convincingly assert, is pressured by police into confessing to the murder. The one problem -- his DNA does not match. Undete
Though the real perpetrator has since been convicted, three of the four remain in prison today, attesting to the powerful role confessions—even false ones—play in our criminal justice system, where they typically trump fact, reason, and common sense.Writer Tom Wells and law professor Richard Leo masterfully interweave a narrative covering the unfolding of the case with an exploration of topics ranging from coercive interrogation, police perjury ("testilying"), and prosecutorial politics to the role of the death penalty in criminal law.With a clemency campaign for the three wrongly imprisoned men still ongoing, this book presents an urgent call for justice and a convincing case for reform in the criminal justice system.. A compulsively readable true-crime tale, with a damning argument about the relationship between the death penalty and false confessions, based on an Innocence Project case."It's time for Virginia's governor to do something about the Norfolk Four.This is one of the most disturbing potential miscarriages of justice the commonwealth has seen in a long time."—The Washington Post, editorial, December 1, 2006On July 8, 1997, nineteen-year-old sailor Billy Bosko returned to his home in Norfolk, Virginia, from a naval cruise to find his wife on the
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