American Injustice

Inside Stories from the Underbelly of the Criminal Justice System

De: David S. Rudolf

Narrado por: David S. Rudolf, Sean Pratt

From the fearless defense attorney and civil rights lawyer who rose to fame with Netflix’s The Staircase comes a “bracing account of abuses of power and corruption in the criminal justice system.” (The Guardian)

“A fine companion to Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy and Emily Bazelon’s Charged. A stellar—and often shocking—report on a broken criminal justice system.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

In the past thirty years alone, more than 2,800 innocent American prisoners—their combined sentences surpassing 25,000 years—have been exonerated and freed after being condemned for crimes they did not commit. Terrifyingly, this number represents only a fraction of the actual number of persons wrongfully accused and convicted over the same period.

Renowned criminal defense and civil rights attorney David Rudolf has spent decades defending the wrongfully accused. In American Injustice, he draws from his years of experience in the American criminal legal system to shed light on the misconduct that exists at all levels of law enforcement and the tragic consequences that follow in its wake. Tracing these themes through the lens of some of his most important cases—including new details from the Michael Peterson trial made famous in The Staircase—Rudolf takes the reader inside crime scenes to examine forensic evidence left by perpetrators; revisits unsolved murders to detail how and why the true culprits were never prosecuted; reveals how confirmation bias leads police and prosecutors to employ tactics that make wrongful arrests and prosecutions more likely; and exposes how poverty and racism fundamentally distort the system.

In American Injustice, Rudolf gives a voice to those who have been the victim of wrongful accusations and shows in the starkest terms the human impact of legal wrongdoing. Effortlessly blending gripping true-crime reporting and searing observations on civil rights in America, American Injustice takes readers behind the scenes of a justice system in desperate need of reform.

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Good true crime stories about state abuse with light legal discussion. Just the right amount of smugness for a venerable criminal defense lawyer.

Awesome!!!!!

It really opened my eyes to our unfair and flawed system!!!! Be thankful that you haven’t been caught up in this Criminal Injustice System.

Injustice. Again and again and again.

Great book, stories and cases. How those guilty of cheating, lying and hiding evidence, all to keep innocent men and women in prison for years and decades, are never held accountable is beyond my understanding.

Outstanding read

This book was informative and intelligent. As much a memoir, as it was a tour of the injustice in the American court system. Stories and cases from the authors long career paint a picture of rampant abuse of power and corruption that is breathtaking. This book brought me to tears several times. Everyone should read it.

Mind boggling

It does not seem possible that a human being could be so corrupt and careless with another human life. And yet- this book explains it perfectly.
The abuses of power and confirmation bias described in this book are literally breathtaking. Thank you for your work David Rudolf. This is a book that every person living in the US should read in order to have a better understanding of our “justice” system.