Mean Justice
by Edward Humes
Buy on Amazon"In Mean Justice, journalist Edward Humes embarks on a chilling journey to the dark side of the justice system - the powerful true story of one man's battle to prove his innocence. It is a story both deeply personal and sweeping in scope, for Humes shows how the individual injustice done to one man is part of a disturbing national trend, in which innocence becomes the unintended casualty of the war on crime, and the immense new powers of prosecutors - from Main Street to Wall Street to Pennsylvania Avenue - are dangerously unchecked.". "Humes tells how retired high-school principal Pat Dunn was prosecuted for killing his wife to inherit her millions.…
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"I remember the book as a witch hunt at a time when there was national hysteria, especially here in California, about rings of pedophiles doing ungodly things to children. Eddie Humes is a great writer, just a terrific journalist. He wrote this book about this born-again-Christian District Attorney out in the hinterlands of California, who just ran amock, indicting and getting convictions on scores and scores of people who were totally innocent and did nothing. You see how much power District Attorneys have in the criminal justice system, mostly used not in an honourable way, but to rack up convictions so they’ll get re-elected. “Crime was so bad in the 80s and early 90s in New York that people really were fearful.”"
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