Read the excerpts from "Wrongful Convictions" by Jon Which quotation from Just Mercy best relates to the
Gould and Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson.
details in the "Wrongful Convictions" excerpt?
"Wrongful Convictions"
In the end, we were able to include 460 cases in the
study.... 260 of them were erroneous convictions.
Just Mercy
After graduating from law school, I went back to the
Deep South to represent the poor, the incarcerated,
and the condemned. In the last thirty years, I've gotten
close to people who have been wrongly convicted and
sent to death row, people like Walter McMillian. In this
book you will learn the story of Walter's case, which
taught me about our system's disturbing indifference
to inaccurate or unreliable verdicts, our comfort with
bias, and our tolerance of unfair prosecutions and
convictions. Walter's experience taught me how our
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O "After graduating from law school, I went back to
the Deep South to represent the poor, the
incarcerated, and the condemned."
"In this book you will learn the story of Walter's
case, which taught me about our system's
disturbing indifference to inaccurate or unreliable
verdicts, our comfort with bias, and our tolerance of
unfair prosecutions and convictions."
O "Walter's experience taught me how our system
traumatizes and victimizes people when we
exercise our power to convict and condemn
irresponsibly-not just the accused but also their
families, their communities, and even the victims of
crime."
O "But Walter's case also taught me something else:
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