Anatomy of injustice : a murder case gone wrong [sound recording]
Bonner, Raymond
Anatomy of injustice : a murder case gone wrong [sound recording] / Raymond Bonner - New York : Blacktone Audio, Inc. , 2012. - 9 sound discs (11 hours) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Unabridged. Compact disc. Tracks every 3 minutes.
Read by Mark Bramhall Read by Mark Bramhall
This book is an incisive investigation into the many shortcomings of the justice system brought to light in the story of a grievously mishandled murder case in South Carolina that left an innocent man facing execution. At the age of twenty-three, Edward Lee Elmore, a black man, was arrested after the body of a white widow was found, brutally beaten, in the closet of her home. Elmore was an unlikely killer: semiliterate, mentally retarded with a fifth-grade education, gentle and loving with his family. His connection to the victim was minimal, but barely ninety days after the victim's body was found, he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. The author gives us an exhaustive account of the particulars of racism, prosecutorial misconduct, inept defense lawyers, and injustice in Elmore's case, which, the author makes clear, occur in courts throughout America. He carefully examines each stage of the initial trial, jury selection, the role of the lawyers and judge, the appeal process, and introduces us to the spirited young female lawyer who, for two decades, fought to get Elmore a fair trial. It is a vital contribution to our nation's ongoing, increasingly vehement debate about justice and inequality.
9781455156337
2011023515
015990966 Uk
Elmore, Edward Lee----Trial
Trials (Murder)---United States
South Carolina----Biography
KF225.E43 / B66 2012
CD 345.75 BON
Anatomy of injustice : a murder case gone wrong [sound recording] / Raymond Bonner - New York : Blacktone Audio, Inc. , 2012. - 9 sound discs (11 hours) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Unabridged. Compact disc. Tracks every 3 minutes.
Read by Mark Bramhall Read by Mark Bramhall
This book is an incisive investigation into the many shortcomings of the justice system brought to light in the story of a grievously mishandled murder case in South Carolina that left an innocent man facing execution. At the age of twenty-three, Edward Lee Elmore, a black man, was arrested after the body of a white widow was found, brutally beaten, in the closet of her home. Elmore was an unlikely killer: semiliterate, mentally retarded with a fifth-grade education, gentle and loving with his family. His connection to the victim was minimal, but barely ninety days after the victim's body was found, he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. The author gives us an exhaustive account of the particulars of racism, prosecutorial misconduct, inept defense lawyers, and injustice in Elmore's case, which, the author makes clear, occur in courts throughout America. He carefully examines each stage of the initial trial, jury selection, the role of the lawyers and judge, the appeal process, and introduces us to the spirited young female lawyer who, for two decades, fought to get Elmore a fair trial. It is a vital contribution to our nation's ongoing, increasingly vehement debate about justice and inequality.
9781455156337
2011023515
015990966 Uk
Elmore, Edward Lee----Trial
Trials (Murder)---United States
South Carolina----Biography
KF225.E43 / B66 2012
CD 345.75 BON
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