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With his colleagues at the People’s Law Office (PLO), Flint Taylor has argued landmark civil-rights cases that have exposed corruption and cover-ups within the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and throughout the city’s corrupt political machine.
The Torture Machine takes listeners from the 1969 murders of Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton and Panther Mark Clark - and the historic 13 years of litigation that followed - through the dogged pursuit of commander Jon Burge, the leader of a torture ring within the CPD that used barbaric methods, including electric shock, to elicit false confessions from suspects.
Joining forces with community activists, torture survivors and their families, other lawyers, and local reporters, Taylor and the PLO gathered evidence from multiple cases to bring suit against the CPD officers and the City of Chicago. As the struggle expanded beyond the torture scandal to the ultimately successful campaign to end the death penalty in Illinois, and obtained reparations for many of the torture survivors, it set human-rights precedents that have since been adopted across the United States.
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- De: Jeffrey Haas
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 11 h y 49 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 775
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Uncovering a cold-blooded execution at the hands of a conspiring police force, this engaging account relentlessly pursues the murderers of Black Panther Fred Hampton. Documenting the entire 14-year process of bringing the killers to justice, this chronicle also depicts the 18-month court trial in detail. Revealing Hampton himself in a new light, this examination presents him as a dynamic community leader whose dedication to his people and to the truth inspired the young lawyers of the People's Law Office.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Terrible narrator for a great story!!!
- De D. Rolland en 11-06-20
De: Jeffrey Haas
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Let the Lord Sort Them
- The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty
- De: Maurice Chammah
- Narrado por: Kevin R. Free
- Duración: 11 h y 25 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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In 1972, the United States Supreme Court made a surprising ruling: The country’s death penalty system violated the Constitution. The backlash was swift, especially in Texas, where executions were considered part of the cultural fabric, and a dark history of lynching was masked by gauzy visions of a tough-on-crime frontier. When executions resumed, Texas quickly became the nationwide leader in carrying out the punishment.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very Slanted
- De appreciative reader en 02-07-21
De: Maurice Chammah
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Race Against Time
- De: Jerry Mitchell
- Narrado por: Jerry Mitchell
- Duración: 13 h y 12 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 182
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 160
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 159
In Race Against Time, Mitchell takes listeners on the twisting, pulse-racing road that led to the reopening of four of the most infamous killings from the days of the Civil Rights Movement, decades after the fact. His work played a central role in bringing killers to justice for the assassination of Medgar Evers, the firebombing of Vernon Dahmer, the 16th Street Church bombing in Birmingham, and the Mississippi Burning case. Mitchell reveals how he unearthed secret documents and found long-lost suspects and witnesses, building up evidence strong enough to take on the Klan.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely horrible reading
- De Grace O'Malley en 03-14-20
De: Jerry Mitchell
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Illusion of Justice
- Inside Making a Murderer and America's Broken System
- De: Jerome F. Buting
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 10 h y 37 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 193
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 181
Not since The Thin Blue Line has there been a true-crime saga as engrossing as Making a Murderer. Captivating audiences across demographic lines, it made Steven Avery a household name and thrust defense attorney Jerome F. Buting - and his fight against America's dysfunctional criminal justice system - into the spotlight. In Illusion of Justice, Buting uses the Avery case as a springboard to examine the shaky integrity of our law enforcement and legal systems, which he has witnessed firsthand for nearly four decades.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Tells it like it is . . .
- De Regan Williams en 11-26-17
De: Jerome F. Buting
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Conviction
- The Murder Trial That Powered Thurgood Marshall's Fight for Civil Rights
- De: Denver Nicks, John Nicks
- Narrado por: Ron Butler
- Duración: 6 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 93
On New Year's Eve, 1939, a horrific triple murder occurred in rural Oklahoma. Within a matter of days, investigators identified several suspects: convicts who had been at a craps game with one of the victims the night before. Also at the craps game was a young black farmer named W. D. Lyons. Political pressure mounted to find a villain. The governor's representative settled on Lyons, who was arrested, tortured into signing a confession, and tried for the murder. The NAACP's new Legal Defense and Education Fund sent its young chief counsel, Thurgood Marshall, to take part in the trial.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What a piece of history 💕
- De GenXtinction en 01-12-21
De: Denver Nicks, y otros
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Blood in the Water
- The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
- De: Heather Ann Thompson
- Narrado por: Erin Bennett
- Duración: 22 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 685
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 611
On September 9, 1971, nearly 1,300 prisoners took over the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York to protest years of mistreatment. Holding guards and civilian employees hostage, the prisoners negotiated with officials for improved conditions during the four long days and nights that followed. On September 13, the state abruptly sent hundreds of heavily armed troopers and correction officers to retake the prison by force. Their gunfire killed 39 men - hostages as well as prisoners.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Tragic Events, Well-Told
- De David en 10-27-17
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Outrage
- The Five Reasons Why O.J. Simpson Got Away with Murder
- De: Vincent Bugliosi
- Narrado por: Joseph Campanella
- Duración: 5 h y 7 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 386
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 297
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 296
What went wrong in the O.J. Simpson double-murder trial? Former prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi dares to lay bare the bungling he perceived in the case. Incriminating evidence was never presented and lapses in strategy left prosecutors Marcia Clark and Christopher Darden at a disadvantage. These are just a few of the fatal errors that led to a victory for the defense.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Rip-off
- De Andrew Kelly en 05-21-19
De: Vincent Bugliosi
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Betrayal in Dallas
- LBJ, the Pearl Street Mafia, and the Murder of President Kennedy
- De: Mark North
- Narrado por: Erik Davies
- Duración: 6 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 83
Here's what we now know: John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas by Mafia contract killers hired by Louisiana mob boss Carlos Marcello. Kennedy was killed in that city because it was the only place in the country where a crime of that magnitude could be committed without fear of punishment. Long-time local district attorney Henry Wade, an LBJ crony who would have sole jurisdiction over the prosecution of those responsible, had been corrupted by the local Civello crime family. Lyndon B. Johnson, while a U.S. senator during the 1950s, had accepted bribes from the same mobsters so that they could avoid deportation.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Gangland Point of View
- De margot en 10-20-13
De: Mark North
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The Savage City
- De: T. J. English
- Narrado por: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Duración: 10 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 65
In the early 1960s, uncertainty and menace gripped New York, crystallizing in a poisonous divide between a deeply corrupt, cynical, and racist police force, and an African American community buffeted by economic distress, brutality, and narcotics. On August 28, 1963 - the day Martin Luther King Jr. declared "I have a dream" on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial - two young white women were murdered in their Manhattan apartment. Dubbed the Career Girls Murders case, the crime sent ripples of fear throughout the city, as police scrambled fruitlessly for months to find the killer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I Highly Recommend This Book!
- De R en 05-15-13
De: T. J. English
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Where the Bodies Were Buried
- Whitey Bulger and the World That Made Him
- De: T. J. English
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 16 h y 9 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 272
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 240
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New York Times best-selling author T. J. English, the acclaimed master chronicler of the Irish Mob in America, offers a front row seat at the trial of one of the most notorious gangsters of all - Whitey Bulger - and pulls back the veil to expose a breathtaking history of corruption and malfeasance.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The post-trial story of the Bulger legacy
- De Hugh F en 09-28-15
De: T. J. English
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They're Lying
- The Media, the Left, and the Death of George Floyd
- De: Liz Collin
- Narrado por: Liz Collin
- Duración: 5 h y 20 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 104
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 100
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Award-winning investigative journalist Liz Collin sets the record straight. She uncovers what really happened on a street in Minneapolis that set off the riots, the demands to defund the police, and the skyrocketing crime across the country. Based on conversations with those who were there—including Derek Chauvin, Thomas Lane, and other Minneapolis police officers who’ve never spoken out before—Liz exposes how the media and the Left manipulated the facts to dupe and divide America.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The truth exposed!
- De Amazon Customer en 02-24-23
De: Liz Collin
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Anatomy of Injustice
- A Murder Case Gone Wrong
- De: Raymond Bonner
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 11 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 66
In January 1982, an elderly white widow was found brutally murdered in the small town of Greenwood, South Carolina. Police immediately arrested Edward Lee Elmore, a semiliterate, mentally retarded black man with no previous felony record. His only connection to the victim was having cleaned her gutters and windows, but barely ninety days after the victim’s body was found, he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. Elmore had been on death row for eleven years when a young attorney named Diana Holt first learned of his case.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A miscarriage of justice if I've ever seen it
- De Education is KEY en 10-11-17
De: Raymond Bonner
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Ultimate Punishment
- A Lawyer's Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty
- De: Scott Turow
- Narrado por: Scott Turow
- Duración: 3 h y 12 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34
In this vivid account of how his views on the death penalty have evolved, Scott Turow describes his own experiences with capital punishment. Along the way, he provides a brief history of America's relationship with the ultimate punishment, analyzes the potent reasons for and against it, including the role of the victims' survivors, and tells the powerful stories behind the statistics, as he moves from the Governor's Mansion to Illinois' state-of-the art 'super-max' prison and the execution chamber.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thought provoking book
- De Susan B. en 11-01-05
De: Scott Turow
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The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
- Crime, Conspiracy and Cover-Up - A New Investigation
- De: Tim Tate, Brad Johnson
- Narrado por: Lewis Hancock
- Duración: 10 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 44
At 12.16 a.m. on Wednesday, June 5, 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded in the service pantry of the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles. A 24-year-old Palestinian immigrant, Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, was found holding the smoking gun and convicted of murder. That is the official history - but Tim Tate and Brad Johnson have uncovered a different story.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Definitive Work on the RFK assassination!
- De Lisa Hardy en 09-26-19
De: Tim Tate, y otros
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Where Law Ends
- Inside the Mueller Investigation
- De: Andrew Weissmann
- Narrado por: George Newbern, Andrew Weissmann
- Duración: 14 h y 8 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 729
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 635
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 630
In the first and only inside account of the Mueller investigation, one of the special counsel’s most trusted prosecutors breaks his silence on the team’s history-making search for the truth, their painstaking deliberations and costly mistakes, and Trump’s unprecedented efforts to stifle their report.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Riveting
- De Victoria Eriksson en 10-06-20
De: Andrew Weissmann
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Wicked Takes the Witness Stand
- A Tale of Murder and Twisted Deceit in Northern Michigan
- De: Mardi Link
- Narrado por: Jim McCance
- Duración: 15 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 205
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 195
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 194
On a bitterly cold afternoon in December 1986, a Michigan State trooper found the frozen body of Jerry Tobias in the bed of his pickup truck. The 31-year-old oil field worker and small-time drug dealer was clad only in jeans, a checkered shirt, and cowboy boots. Inside the cab of the truck was a fresh package of expensive steaks from a local butcher shop, the first lead in a case that would be quickly lost in a thicket of bungled forensics, shady prosecution, and a psychopathic star witness out for revenge.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Justice system Vs Conviction system
- De Sean en 11-14-16
De: Mardi Link
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Avery
- The Case Against Steven Avery and What Making a Murderer Gets Wrong
- De: Ken Kratz
- Narrado por: Bradley Hayes
- Duración: 4 h y 50 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 173
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 156
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 156
The Netflix series Making a Murderer quickly became a huge hit, with over 19 million viewers in the US in the first 35 days. The series left many viewers with the opinion that Steven Avery - a man falsely imprisoned for almost 20 years on a rape charge - was railroaded into prison a second time by a corrupt police force and district attorney's office. Viewers were outraged, and hundreds of thousands demanded a pardon for Avery. The chief villain of the series: Ken Kratz, the special prosecutor who headed the investigation and prosecution.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Super Boring
- De AnnaBelle en 02-23-17
De: Ken Kratz
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The Poison Patriarch
- How the Betrayals of Joseph P. Kennedy Caused the Assassination of JFK
- De: Mark Shaw
- Narrado por: Pat Kiernan
- Duración: 7 h y 45 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 299
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 266
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 264
Focusing for the first time on why attorney general Robert F. Kennedy wasn’t killed in 1963 instead of on why President John F. Kennedy was, Mark Shaw offers a stunning and provocative assassination theory that leads directly to the family patriarch, Joseph P. Kennedy. Mining fresh information and more than 40 new interviews, Shaw weaves a spellbinding narrative involving Mafia don Carlos Marcello; Jack Ruby (Lee Harvey Oswald’s killer); Ruby’s attorney, Melvin Belli; and, ultimately, the Kennedy brothers and their father.
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1 out of 5 stars
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He should stick to writing briefs
- De Karenanne Brown en 03-28-18
De: Mark Shaw