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61) The wrong man
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The first Hitchcock film based on a true story. A nightclub musician is falsely accused of a robbery, an accusation that ruins his life.
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In May 1985, Darryl Hunt, a Black teenager in Winston-Salem, N.C. was falsely convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of a young white copyeditor at the local paper. In 2003, an award-winning series of articles led to the DNA evidence that exonerated Hunt. Part true crime drama, part chronicle of a remarkable life cut short by systemic prejudice, this book powerfully illuminates the sustained catastrophe faced by an innocent...
Author
Series
King Oliver novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Joe King Oliver was one of the NYPD's finest investigators, until, dispatched to arrest a well-heeled car thief, he is framed for assault by his enemies within the NYPD, a charge which lands him in solitary at Rikers Island.A decade later, King is a private detective, running his agency with the help of his teenage daughter, Aja-Denise. When he receives a card in the mail from the woman who admits she was paid to frame him those years ago, King realizes...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chronicles America's complicated perceptions of race and crime through the story of the "Central Park 5", a documentary that examines the 1989 case of five black and Latino teenagers who were convicted of raping a white woman in Central Park. After having spent between 6 and 13 years each in prison, a serial rapist confessed to the crime.
Series
Forbidden Hollywood volume 10
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (358 min) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Guilty hands: when a lawyer discovers that his daughter plans to wed one of his past clients, he commits a horrible act to ensure it never happens.
The mouthpiece: after a traumatic experience, a prosecutor changes his lifestyle in order to cope.
Secrets of the French police: a man tricks a French woman into posing as a Russian.
The Match King: a man rises from rags to riches but is then distracted by a beautiful woman.
Ever in my heart: a German...
66) Punching the air
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Appears on list
Description
From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. "The story that I thought was my life didn't start on the day I was born." Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he's seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Then one fateful night, an altercation in...
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Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
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Description
"It wasn't the September 11 attacks or the murders he'd investigated for the NYPD that haunted him, the detective told journalist Dan Slepian, but a 1990 case where two men were sentenced to twenty-five years to life in prison for a murder they didn't commit. When Slepian, a veteran producer for NBC's Dateline, asked how he knew, the cop replied, "Because I know who the real killers are." Slepian couldn't shake what the detective had told him-and...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Description
After returning from an expedition, Dr. Arthur Calgary learns that he could have proved the innocence of a man who was wrongfully convicted of murder and executed, but finds resistance when he tries to have the case reopened.
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
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Description
"In 1989, Ben Spencer was convicted of murdering businessman Jeffrey Young-a crime he didn't commit. Spencer to spent more than half his life in prison until independent investigators, the foreman of the jury that convicted him, and a new district attorney convinced a judge that Spencer had nothing to do with the killing. He was released from prison in 2022. Journalist Barbara Bradley Hagerty spent years immersed in Spencer's case. She combed police...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
316 pages
Description
"Marked for Life is the incredible memoir of a wrongfully imprisoned man's epic journey to free himself and others like him. Isaac Wright Jr. was wrongly accused of drug charges in New Jersey and sentenced to life in prison in 1991. He was arrested, tried, and convicted under a draconian "kingpin" statute even though he never dealt drugs a day in his life. Even though the prosecutor knew he was innocent, as did the detectives who investigated and...
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