03031cam a2200361 4500 584026318 TxAuBib 20220519120000.0 ||||||s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781610398961 1610398963 B01NCHP7XH Amazon b7437b16-865f-49a2-bfa3-ea7238c03f51 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3051031 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Balko, Radley. The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist [Libby eBook] : A True Story of Injustice in the American South. PublicAffairs, 2018. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 3034kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 3402kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<b>A shocking and deeply reported account of the persistent plague of institutional racism and junk forensic science in our criminal justice system, and its devastating effect on innocent lives</b><br /> After two three-year-old girls were raped and murdered in rural Mississippi, law enforcement pursued and convicted two innocent men: Kennedy Brewer and Levon Brooks. Together they spent a combined thirty years in prison before finally being exonerated in 2008. Meanwhile, the real killer remained free.<br /> <i>The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist</i> recounts the story of how the criminal justice system allowed this to happen, and of how two men, Dr. Steven Hayne and Dr. Michael West, built successful careers on the back of that structure. For nearly two decades, Hayne, a medical examiner, performed the vast majority of Mississippi's autopsies, while his friend Dr. West, a local dentist, pitched himself as a forensic jack-of-all-trades. Together they became the go-to experts for prosecutors and helped put countless Mississippians in prison. But then some of those convictions began to fall apart.<br /> Here, Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington tell the haunting story of how the courts and Mississippi's death investigation system — a relic of the Jim Crow era — failed to deliver justice for its citizens. The authors argue that bad forensics, structural racism, and institutional failures are at fault, raising sobering questions about our ability and willingness to address these crucial issues. True Crime. Nonfiction. History. Science. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-17 20:00:03. Carrington, Tucker. Grisham, John. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=b7437b16-865f-49a2-bfa3-ea7238c03f51&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=b7437b16-865f-49a2-bfa3-ea7238c03f51&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=b7437b16-865f-49a2-bfa3-ea7238c03f51&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)