Dr. Death and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Corruption and Injustice in the American South
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| Rating | : | 4.73 (546 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01NCHP7XH |
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| Number of Pages | : | 315 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Since 2006, Balko has written dozens of pieces on Hayne, West, and Mississippi's forensics disaster. He has worked as a criminal defense lawyer for his entire legal career, most of it as a public defender in Washington, D.C.. His January 2013 investigation, "Solving Kathy Mabry's Murder: Brutal 15-Year-Old Crime Highli
He currently writes and edits The Watch, a reported opinion blog that covers civil liberties and the criminal justice system. He has worked as a criminal defense lawyer for his entire legal career, most of it as a public defender in Washington, D.C.. He is the author of the 2013 book Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces, which has won widespread acclaim, including from the Economist, New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly, and was named one of the best investigative journalism books of the year by the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University. About the Author Radley Balko is an investigative journalist and reporter at the Washington Post. His January 2013 investigation, "Solving Kathy Mabry's Murder: Brutal 15-Year-Old Crime Highlights Decades
Dr. The old problem is inextricably bound up with and exacerbates the new. Steven Hayne, a doctor the State of Mississippi employed as its de facto medical examiner for two decades. West's bite mark matching formed the bases for the convictions. Brooks' and Brewer's wrongful convictions lie at the intersection of both the most pressing problem facing this country's criminal justice system-structural injustice built on the historic foundation of race and class as well as with the much more contemporary but equally egregious problem of invalid forensic science. This is a tale of two tragedies.At the heart of the first is Dr. He also often brought in local dentist and self-styled "bite mark specialist" Dr. Balko and Carrington will shine a light on the institutional and professional failures that allowed this tragic, astonishing story to happen, identify where it may have happened elsewhere, and show how to prevent it from happening again.. Death and the Country Dentist, Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington write a true story of Southern gothic horror-of two innocent men wrongly convicted of vicious crimes and the legally condoned failures that allowed it to happen. Beginning in the late 1980s, he performed anywhere from 1,200 to 1,800 autopsies per year, five times more than is recommended, performed at night in the basement of a local funeral home. Autopsy reports claimed organs