These up-close accounts from the courtroom defense table are essential listening for anyone who wants to better understand how injustice is served by our system.
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"Really chilling to consider how much luck and privilege pay a role in our freedom. A fabulous story, with great narration."
— Genna Martin (4 out of 5 stars)
“The truest true crime you’ll ever read, and when it’s not scaring you, it will make your blood boil.”
— BookTrib“Should be required reading for every law enforcement officer and every prosecutor in the United States and around the world.”
— Jeremy DeConcini, former special agent, US Department of Homeland Security“Justin Brooks exposes the deep flaws in our legal system that have unjustly led so many into prison and onto death row. How can we trust such a system to take away the lives of our citizens? We cannot.”
— Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking“Brooks…draws upon his decades of experience fighting these nightmarish injustices to reveal what we can do to spare innocent lives in the future.”
— Amanda Knox, New York Times bestselling authorBe the first to write a review about this audiobook!
Justin Brooks is a criminal defense lawyer, law professor, and the founding director of the California Innocence Project, where he has spent decades freeing innocent people from prison. He is the author of the only legal casebook devoted to the topic of wrongful convictions and was portrayed by Academy Award–nominated actor Greg Kinnear in the feature film Brian Banks.