Anatomy of injustice : a murder case gone wrong /

Anatomy of injustice : a murder case gone wrong /

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Author / Creator:Bonner, Raymond.
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint:New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
Description:xv, 298 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Elmore, Edward Lee -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Elmore, Edward Lee.
Trials (Murder) -- South Carolina.
Trials.
Trials (Murder)
South Carolina.
True crime stories.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8733388
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ISBN:9780307700216 (hbk.)
0307700216 (hbk.)
Notes:Includes index.
Summary: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.
Table of Contents:
  • Author's Note
  • Book 1. Rush to Judgment
  • Chapter 1. Greenwood, South Carolina, 1982
  • The Town
  • The Crime
  • The Police
  • The Suspect-Edward Lee Elmore
  • The Arrest
  • The Death Penalty
  • The Prosecutor
  • Chapter 2. Speedy Trial
  • The Judge
  • The Defense Lawyers
  • The Jury
  • The Opening Statements
  • The Pathologist
  • The Girlfriend
  • Hair on the Bed
  • The Jailhouse Informant
  • The Defendant-Edward Lee Elmore
  • The Prosecutor's Closing Argument
  • Deliberation on Death
  • Chapter 3. Replay
  • Book 2. Innocence Is Not Enough
  • Chapter 4. Diana
  • Chapter 5. The Intern and the Neighbor
  • Chapter 6. Innocence Is Not Enough
  • The Girlfriend, Revisited
  • The Jailhouse Informant, Revisited
  • Dueling Pathologists
  • Blood, Blue Jeans, Footprints, and Fingerprints
  • Hair on the Bed, Revisited
  • Summing Up
  • "... may well not be guilty"
  • Chapter 7. The Search for Item T
  • Chapter 8. Digging Up the Past
  • Chapter 9. One Hair ...
  • Chapter 10. Digging Up the Dead
  • Chapter 11. Bizarre
  • Chapter 12. Denouement
  • Epilogue
  • A Note on Sources and Acknowledgments
  • Index
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