Illusion of justice : inside Making a murderer and America's broken system / Jerome F. Buting.
"Interweaving his account of the Steven Avery trial at the heart of Making a Murderer with other high profile cases from his criminal defense career, attorney Jerome F. Buting explains the flaws in America's criminal justice system and lays out a provocative, persuasive blue-print for reform. Over his career, Jerome F. Buting has spent hundreds of hours in courtrooms representing defendants in criminal trials. When he agreed to join Dean Strang as co-counsel for the defense in Steven A. Avery vs. State of Wisconsin, he knew a tough fight lay ahead. But, as he reveals in Illusion of Justice, no-one could have predicted just how tough and twisted that fight would be--or that it would become the center of the documentary Making a Murderer, which made Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey household names and thrust Buting into the spotlight. Buting's powerful, riveting boots-on-the-ground narrative of Avery's and Dassey's cases becomes a springboard to examine the shaky integrity of law enforcement and justice in the United States, which Buting has witnessed firsthand for more than 35 years. From his early career as a public defender to his success overturning wrongful convictions working with the Innocence Project, his story provides a compelling expert view into the high-stakes arena of criminal defense law; the difficulties of forensic science; and a horrifying reality of biased interrogations, coerced or false confessions, faulty eyewitness testimony, official misconduct, and more. Combining narrative reportage with critical commentary and personal reflection, Buting explores his professional and personal motivations, career-defining cases--including his shocking fifteen-year-long fight to clear the name of another man wrongly accused and convicted of murder--and what must happen if our broken system is to be saved. Taking a place beside Just Mercy and The New Jim Crow, Illusion of Justice is a tour-de-force from a relentless and eloquent advocate for justice who is determined to fulfill his professional responsibility and, in the face of overwhelming odds, make America's judicial system work as it is designed to do"-- Provided by publisher.
"In contextualizing the complex, morally ambiguous true crime story driving Netflix sensation Making a Murderer--and weaving in many other cases from his colorful career--this book by Steven Avery's defense attorney, Jerome Buting, will combine top-tier reportage, untold aspects of the Avery and Brendan Dassey trials, and personal memoir with a provocative, ground-breaking call for reform within America's criminal justice system, which in principle presumes innocence, but in practice presumes guilt. Description"-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9780062569318
- ISBN: 0062569317
- Physical Description: 339 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2017]
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | A pixel rarely makes the picture -- Presumed guilty -- Just a lawyer -- One step forward, two steps back -- Swimming upstream -- Déjà Vu -- Caught in a five-hundred-year rain -- Thinking out loud. |
Target Audience Note: | 1200L Lexile |
Awards Note: | A Junior Library Guild selection (JLG.) |
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Scenic Regional-Union | 345.775 BUT (Text) | 3005589234 | NonFiction | Available | - |
Carthage Public Library | 345.775 B97i (Text) | 34MO2001797138 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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Cass County Library-Northern Resource Center | 345.775 BUT 2017 (Text) | 0002204951350 | Adult Non-Fiction | Available | - |
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