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Mean Justice A Town's Terror, A Prosecutor's
Power, A Betrayal of Innocence
Sinopsis
Deep in the heartland of California lies a city
on the cutting edge of the nation's war on crime.
Besieged by spectacular crimes in which pillars
of the community were accused of murder, rape
and the most vile conspiracies, Bakersfield
found its saviors in a band of bold and savvy
prosecutors. They descended on the courthouse
like avenging angels, winning their cases,
forging sweeping new laws and creating one of the
toughest towns on the country. There arrested,
tried and
crime in America -- a model for the rest of is
only one problem The people who were imprisoned
in those landmark cases were
innocent. In Mean Justice, award-winning author
and journalist Edward Humes embarks on a chilling
journey to the dark side of the justice system
-- the powerful true story of one man's battle
to prove his innocence. It is a story both deeply
personal and sweeping in scope, for Humes shows
how the individual injustice done to one man is
part of a disturbing national trend, in which
innocence becomes the unintended casualty of the
war on crime, and the immense new powers of
prosecutors -- from Main Street to Wall Street to
Pennsylvania Avenue -- are dangerously
unchecked. Combining the investigative reporting
skills that earned him a Pulitzer Prize with the
gifted storytelling honored by a PEN literary
award, Humes tells how retired high-school
principal Pat Dunn was prosecuted for killing
his wife to inherit her millions. As taut and
exciting as a suspense novel, Mean Justice
reveals how Dunn's case was tainted by hidden
witnesses, concealed evidence and behind-
the-scenes lobbying by powerful politicians. More
horrifying still, there were many such cases in
this All-American town,
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where a well-meaning desire for public safety led
to something dark and terrible and unjust.
Finally, Humes asks whether the mean justice
dispensed in Bakersfield, California, may be
fast becoming the norm for the rest of the
country, where, in our zeal for order, we are
increasingly forgiving prosecutorial misconduct.
American cities are enjoying their lowest crime
rates in decades. But at what price? Mean
Justice provides an answer both compelling and
frightening.
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