I Am Innocent!: A Comprehensive Encyclopedic History of the World s Wrongly Convicted Persons - Softcover

Nash, Jay Robert

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9780306815607: I Am Innocent!: A Comprehensive Encyclopedic History of the World s Wrongly Convicted Persons
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0306815605 ISBN 13: 9780306815607
Publisher: Da Capo Press, 2008

Synopsis

Here, in this unique and compulsively readable encyclopedia for all true-crime buffs, you will find all the famously, or infamously, “innocent”-from Mary, Queen of Scots, to Alfred Dreyfus, from Leo Frank to the Scottsboro Boys, from Dr. Sam Sheppard to Anthony Porter, from Joan of Arc to Lindy Chamberlain, as well as hundreds of other cases. Unequalled in depth and breadth of coverage, “I Am Innocent!” graphically details by category-including such as perjury, railroading, framing, suppression of evidence, police and prosecutorial coercion, mistaken identity, and prejudicial publicity-how wrongly convicted persons were sentenced to prison...or the gallows. Over five hundred cases are included, as well as a comprehensive glossary of legal and law enforcement terms; an extensive list of movies based on wrongly convicted individuals; a complete bibliography; and a cross-referenced index.

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About the Author

Jay Robert Nash is widely recognized as the world's foremost encyclopedist of crime, and has authored more than seventy single-volume and multi-volume reference works, including the Encyclopedia of World Crime.

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Publisher
Da Capo Press
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0306815605
ISBN 13 
9780306815607
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
832
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