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The cadaver king and the country dentist a true story of injustice in the American South

Relates the stories of two innocent men who were wrongly accused and convicted of crimes due largely to the legally condoned failures perpetrated by invalid forensic science and institutional racism. --Publisher.

Main Authors: Balko, Radley (Author), Carrington, Tucker (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : PublicAffairs, 2018.
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Hayne, Steven > (Forensic pathologist)
West, Michael > (Dentist)
Brooks, Levon, > 1959- > Trials, litigation, etc.
Brewer, Kennedy > Trials, litigation, etc.
Criminal justice, Administration of > Mississippi.
Judicial error > Mississippi.
Trials (Rape) > Mississippi.
Trials (Murder) > Mississippi.
True crime stories.
Table of Contents:
  • The murder of Courtney Smith
  • The murder of Christine Jackson
  • Investigating the dead
  • At the hands of persons unknown
  • Setting the stage for the Cadaver King
  • Rise of a fiefdom
  • The West phenomenon
  • Entrenchment
  • The trial of Levon Brooks
  • Keep that woman under control
  • Vessels of wrath, fitted for destruction
  • Prayers for relief
  • The unraveling
  • Redemption and insurrection
  • No reckoning.

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