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Why the innocent plead guilty and the guilty go free

and other paradoxes of our broken legal system
Explores stories of innocent people wrongfully incarcerated in the American justice system where the incarcerated felt pressured to plead guilty, while other stories showcase how often the guilty in high-profile, white-collar jobs go free. Offers critiques of the justice system and what the author, who has spent twenty-four years as a federal trial judge in New York, thinks could be done to make the system more equitable.

Plain heathen mischief

a novel
2004
Defrocked Baptist minister Joel King, released from prison after serving six months for his involvement with a seventeen-year-old vixen, has difficulty keeping to the moral high ground when a looming divorce, a costly civil suit, and a complete lack of career opportunities, makes the offer of a former congregation member who is involved in insurance fraud look very appealing.

Dragon and thief

a dragonback adventure
2004
Fourteen-year-old Jack Morgan's body is invaded by a dragon, and collectively, they must evade the authorities who are looking for each of them.

The Matusow affair

memoir of a national scandal
1987
Recounts the events surrounding the star witness for Senator Joe McCarthy who later recanted his testimony.

No crueler tyrannies

accusation, false witness, and other terrors of our times
2003
Explores the hysteria surrounding child sexual-abuse cases in the 1980s and 1990s, recounting the events surrounding high-profile cases and how they were portrayed in the media.

Dance of death

2006
Deceased special FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast finds himself in a battle with his dead brother Diogenes, who has begun killing all the people who were close to Aloysius when he was alive. As the brothers battle, a related war rages inside the New York Museum of Natural History over ancient relics.

Tangled webs

how false statements are undermining America : from Martha Stewart to Bernie Madoff
2011
Argues that the American judicial system is being undermined by rampant perjury by key witnesses, offering real-life evidence of the problem and its impact on American culture and politics.

Exact revenge

2005
Raymond White is serving a twenty-year sentence for a murder he didn't commit; but when he befriends an art thief named Lester Cole, Raymond finds his chance to escape and make his enemies pay.

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