THE COURT OF LAST RESORT

by Erle Stanley Gardner ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

The popular mystery writer chronicles the origin and work of The Court of Last Resort, a voluntary organization of public spirited specialists who are willing to investigate the cases of those wrongfully convicted or imprisoned. Stemming from Gardner's work for William Marvin Lindley, The Red Headed Killer, the results of the group's early, completed and successful activities offer a record of labor to unearth the truth that moves backwards, forwards and sideways in its uphill efforts to establish innocence. Men jailed for fifteen, twenty years, men sentenced to death, men who have been framed -- these are the ones for whom expert counsel has been available, to whom freedom has been offered after guilt has been disproved. The polygraph has been brought into use, old jurymen and witnesses -- and ones never before approached -- have been tracked down, official coldness and indifference have been revealed, from California, to Ohio, to Michigan and West Virginia, in thecause of justice and specific injustices. Backed by Argosy appealing to public interest, deeply aware of the dangers of capital punishment and penological and institutional effects and cognizant of legal obstacles, The Court's record, as here presented, makes absorbing reading and noteworthy sociological commentary. Of interest

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Publisher: William Sloane

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1952

Categories: NONFICTION