Manifest injustice : the true story of a convicted murderer and the lawyers who fought for his freedom / Barry Siegel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Siegel, Barry, 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Macumber, William, 1935---Trials, litigation, etc.

Macumber, William.

Macumber, William, 1935-.

Trials (Murder)--Arizona--Maricopa County.

Trials (Murder).

Judicial error.

Arizona Justice Project.

Arizona--Maricopa County.

Physical Description:

xiv, 384 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2013.

Summary:

The legal drama of a man who'd spent almost forty years in prison for murders he denied committing and the tenacious lawyers who believed in his innocence.

In the spring of 1962, on an isolated stretch of Arizona desert, an abandoned car and two bodies were discovered. This brutal murder of a young couple bewildered the sheriff's department of Maricopa County for years; despite a few promising leads the case went cold. More than a decade later, a clerk in the sheriff's department came forward to tell police that her estranged husband had confessed to the murders. The case, rife with extraordinary irregularities, attracted the sustained involvement of the Arizona Justice Project. Macumber's story illuminates startling, upsetting truths about our justice system, which kept a possibly innocent man locked up for almost forty years, and what constitutes justice in our country today.

Contents:

Prologue

Crime and consequences

Quest for justice

Last chance.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [365]-371) and index.

ISBN:

9780805094152

0805094156

OCLC:

796756392