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For most people, being held at gunpoint by inept bank robbers disguised as Yoda and SpongeBob Squarepants would make for a bad day. For local librarian Turner Hastings, it's an opportunity. Using the distraction to pull a little heist of her own, she dives into a new life...on the run.
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"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...
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The story of one of the nation's most notorious wrongful convictions, that of Steven Avery, a Wisconsin man who spent eighteen years in prison for a crime he did not commit. But two years after he was exonerated of that crime and poised to reap millions in his wrongful conviction lawsuit, Steven Avery was arrested for the exceptionally brutal murder of Teresa Halbach, a freelance photographer who had gone missing several days earlier. The "Innocent...
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"An insider exposes the shocking facts deliberately left out of the hit Netflix series Making a Murderer--and argues persuasively that Steven Avery was rightfully convicted in the 2005 killing of Teresa Halbach" -- dust jacket flap.
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Audrey Edmunds was a happily married young Wisconsin mother of two with a baby on the way, providing casual childcare, when the unthinkable happened. Accused of killing a baby in her care through shaken baby syndrome, she spent 13 years in jail before her conviction was overturned. She was finally exonerated with the help of the Innocence Project after updated science showed her innocence. Audrey shares her story of hope and redemption in the face...