The Resource Chasing justice : my story of freeing myself after two decades on death row for a crime I didn't commit, Kerry Max Cook
Chasing justice : my story of freeing myself after two decades on death row for a crime I didn't commit, Kerry Max Cook
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- Summary
- "Chronicles how a smalltown murder became one of the worst cases of prosecutorial misconduct in American history, and sent the author, an innocent man, to hell for 22 harrowing years--Cook is one of the longest-tenured death-row prisoners to be freed. Convicted of killing a young woman in Texas, Cook was sentenced to death in 1978 and served two decades in a prison system so notoriously brutal and violent that in 1980 a federal court ruled that serving time in Texas's jails was "cruel and unusual punishment." When an advocate and a crusading lawyer joined his struggle in the 1990s, a series of retrials was forced. At last, in November 1996, Texas's highest appeals court threw out Cook's conviction, citing overwhelming evidence of police and prosecutorial misconduct. Finally in 1999 long-overlooked DNA evidence linked another man to the rape and murder for which Cook had been convicted.--From publisher description."--From source other than the Library of Congress
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 342 pages)
- Label
- Chasing justice : my story of freeing myself after two decades on death row for a crime I didn't commit
- Title
- Chasing justice
- Title remainder
- my story of freeing myself after two decades on death row for a crime I didn't commit
- Statement of responsibility
- Kerry Max Cook
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Chronicles how a smalltown murder became one of the worst cases of prosecutorial misconduct in American history, and sent the author, an innocent man, to hell for 22 harrowing years--Cook is one of the longest-tenured death-row prisoners to be freed. Convicted of killing a young woman in Texas, Cook was sentenced to death in 1978 and served two decades in a prison system so notoriously brutal and violent that in 1980 a federal court ruled that serving time in Texas's jails was "cruel and unusual punishment." When an advocate and a crusading lawyer joined his struggle in the 1990s, a series of retrials was forced. At last, in November 1996, Texas's highest appeals court threw out Cook's conviction, citing overwhelming evidence of police and prosecutorial misconduct. Finally in 1999 long-overlooked DNA evidence linked another man to the rape and murder for which Cook had been convicted.--From publisher description."--From source other than the Library of Congress
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1956-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Cook, Kerry Max
- Dewey number
- 345.764/22502523
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- KF224.C66
- LC item number
- C66 2007
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Cook, Kerry Max
- Trials (Rape)
- Trials (Murder)
- Judicial error
- Death row inmates
- Label
- Chasing justice : my story of freeing myself after two decades on death row for a crime I didn't commit, Kerry Max Cook
- Link
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 342 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1029262184
- Label
- Chasing justice : my story of freeing myself after two decades on death row for a crime I didn't commit, Kerry Max Cook
- Link
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 342 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1029262184
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