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May. 26 2010 - 12:23 am | 61 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment

Making book on wrongful convictions

By STEVE WEINBERG

Books on wrongful convictions abound. Each contains valuable lessons and breathtaking insights about how much can go wrong in the supposedly excellent American criminal justice system.

I try to keep up with those books. Some are better reported than others. Some are better written than others. None has been a waste of time, and I have read about 200.

The most recent is about the wrongful conviction of John Thompson in New Orleans. The title is “Killing Time.” The authors are John Hollway and Ronald M. Gauthier.

The Boston Globe published my review of the book Tuesday, May 25.

 
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    Investigative reporter since 1969, starting on daily newspapers, moving to magazines, then to writing books. In 1978, I decided to reject the world of regular paychecks and freelance for newspapers and magazines while continuing to write nonfiction books. Since 1976, I have been active in an international group called Investigative Reporters and Editors (www.ire.org). From 1983-1990, I ran IRE day to day, and still help edit its magazine. Partly from passion and partly for mercenary reasons, I have been teaching students part-time at the University of Missouri Journalism School since 1978. As you would deduce from my trueslant.com blog, my research, writing and teaching have increasingly focused on exposing flaws in the criminal justice system, especially when those flaws lead to the imprisonment of innocent men and women.

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