Includes index

Defending the rule of law -- How can you represent "those people"? -- Due process in the criminal justice system -- Southern justice -- White justice --Speedy justice -- The front lines -- Terrorists or freedom fighters? -- Shades of gray -- Law enforcement or criminals? -- The coverup -- The most powerful person in the system -- Caught in the cross fire -- The attack on condoms and the First Amendment -- Adam & Eve fight back -- A quiet death by lethal injection -- Set up to be guilty : suggestive false identifications -- Justice for sale : purchasing false testimony -- Hiding the truth : concealing exculpatory evidence -- The usual suspect -- The obvious suspect -- A thousand to one -- Justice delayed -- Coercing false confessions and guilty pleas -- Fabricating confessions -- Abusing the power of science -- Laboratory scandals -- Beyond the limits of science -- I shall be released -- Who killed Shadow Holloman?

"From the fearless defense attorney and civil rights lawyer who rose to fame with Netflix's The Staircase comes an essential examination of America's corrupt and abusive criminal justice system."--