Items related to Victims of Justice (True Crime)
Documents the political pressure, incompetence in handling evidence, and judicial duplicity that resulted in the wrongful conviction and imprisonment of two men for the murder of a Illinois woman, Jeanine Nicarico, in 1983, and the intervention of novelist Scott Turow. Original.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Review:
In early 1984, residents of Naperville, Illinois, breathed a small sigh of relief when three young men were charged with the abduction and killing of 10-year-old Jeanine Nicarico. Although charges were eventually dropped against one of the men, the other two were found guilty of rape, kidnapping, and murder, and both sentenced to death. Case closed. Except it wasn't. The authors of Victims of Justice recount, with an almost palpable shudder, how three completely innocent men were singled out by the system to pay for Jeanine Nicarico's death while the true killer, who freely admitted the crime, went unpunished (albeit while serving time for a separate rape-murder). Garrett (who became obsessed with the case when he was a college student studying psychology) and Frisbie detail the years of struggle to free two innocent men condemned to death, and the multiple trials involved for both in their crooked path to redemption. What emerges is truly "one of the most shocking miscarriages of justice ever recorded," a textbook example of what the authors term the "Prosecution Complex"--in which prosecutors narrow their view of a case so severely to make it fit their preconception of a crime that no contradictory evidence can possibly fit through. A compelling read and a sobering reminder that the authority figures we often depend on to be perfect are only human. --Tjames Madison
About the Author:
Thomas Frisbie has covered Illinois politics and the courts for the Chicago Sun-Times, where he has been an award-winning writer and editor for more than twenty years. Randy Garrett, while previously a resident of DuPage County, Illinois, wrote freelance articles about significant crime cases there.
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherAvon Books
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 038079845X
- ISBN 13 9780380798452
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages289
- Rating
Buy New
Learn more about this copy
US$ 26.39
Shipping:
US$ 3.50
Within U.S.A.
Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace
Stock Image
Victims of Justice (True Crime)
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. New. Seller Inventory # Wizard038079845X
Buy New
US$ 26.39
Convert currency
Stock Image
Victims of Justice (True Crime)
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed. Seller Inventory # think038079845X
Buy New
US$ 26.76
Convert currency
Stock Image
Victims of Justice (True Crime)
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: new. Seller Inventory # FrontCover038079845X
Buy New
US$ 28.72
Convert currency
Stock Image
VICTIMS OF JUSTICE (TRUE CRIME)
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 0.35. Seller Inventory # Q-038079845X
Buy New
US$ 59.75
Convert currency
Stock Image
Victims of Justice (True Crime)
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 0.35. Seller Inventory # Q-038079845x
Buy New
US$ 59.75
Convert currency
Stock Image
Victims of Justice (True Crime)
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. New. Fast Shipping and good customer service. Seller Inventory # Holz_New_038079845X
Buy New
US$ 101.13
Convert currency
Stock Image
Victims of Justice (True Crime)
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Paperback. Condition: New. Brand New!. Seller Inventory # VIB038079845X
Buy New
US$ 111.60
Convert currency