Grace and Justice on Death Row: The Race against Time and Texas to Free an Innocent Man
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Grace and Justice on Death Row: The Race against Time and Texas to Free an Innocent Man
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Overview
A chilling and compassionate look at how close an innocent man was to being put death with a foreword by Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking.
What is worse than having a client on Death Row in Texas? Having a client on Death Row in Texas who is innocent and not knowing if you will be able to stop his execution in time.
Grace and Justice on Death Row: A Race Against Time to Free an Innocent Man tells the story of Alfred Dewayne Brown, a man who spent over twelve years in prison (ten of them on Texas’ infamous Death Row) for a high-profile crime he did not commit, and his lawyer, Brian Stolarz, who dedicated his career and life to secure his freedom. The book chronicles Brown’s extraordinary journey to freedom against very long odds, overcoming unscrupulous prosecutors, corrupt police, inadequate defense counsel, and a broken criminal justice system. The book examines how a lawyer-client relationship turned into one of brotherhood.
Grace And Justice On Death Row also addresses many issues facing the criminal justice system and the death penalty – race, class, adequate defense counsel, and intellectual disability, and proposes reforms.
Told from Stolarz’s perspective, this raw, fast-paced look into what it took to save one man’s life will leave you questioning the criminal justice system in this country. It is a story of injustice and redemption that must be told.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781510715103 |
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| Publisher: | Skyhorse |
| Publication date: | 10/25/2016 |
| Pages: | 228 |
| Product dimensions: | 9.00(w) x 6.10(h) x 1.10(d) |
About the Author
Stolarz has received several awards for his dedication to pro bono service, including the Pro Bono Legal Service Award from the John Carroll Society and the 2014 Caritas Award, the highest honor awarded by Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington in recognition of work for the indigent and oppressed.
Stolarz is a member of the Criminal Justice Act Felony Panel in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and the District of Maryland, a member of the Alumni Council of the Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, and a member of the Board of Directors of Texas Defender Service.
Currently a partner with LeClair Ryan in Alexandria, Virginia, Stolarz is the head of the Compliance, Investigations, and White Collar Practice Team. This is his first book. He lives in Alexandria with his wife, a former prosecutor, and their three children.
Table of Contents
Foreword vii
Part I Introduction
Chapter 1 Brooklyn "BS Meter" 3
Chapter 2 Against Scaliaism 5
Part II The Arrest
Chapter 3 Two Senseless Murders 13
Chapter 4 Manhunt 18
Chapter 5 Family and Faith and Growth 20
Chapter 6 Interrogations 26
Chapter 7 "What y'all want me to say?" 28
Chapter 8 Dewayne's Alibi 30
Chapter 9 "Doing Justice" at the DAs Office 32
Chapter 10 Pressuring the Witnesses 37
Chapter 11 Indictment 44
Part III The Trial
Chapter 12 Gideon Betrayed 49
Chapter 13 The Defense Bar 53
Chapter 14 Defense Fail 56
Chapter 15 Prosecutorial Misconduct 60
Chapter 16 Ericka's Story 63
Chapter 17 The Accomplice's Story 65
Chapter 18 Closing Arguments 71
Chapter 19 The Verdict 75
Chapter 20 Ratifying Injustice 76
Chapter 21 In the Tradition of Dr. Death 83
Chapter 22 The Four Issues 87
Part IV The Fight for Dewayne's Life
Chapter 23 In Praise of NOBs 95
Chapter 24 Life-Changing Phone Call 96
Chapter 25 The Appeal Process 97
Chapter 26 The Writ 99
Chapter 27 The Team 101
Chapter 28 Meeting Dewayne 103
Chapter 29 The Third Guy 107
Chapter 30 Lost Letter 110
Chapter 31 Protecting E.W. 112
Chapter 32 Witnesses Recant 114
Chapter 33 The Brief 116
Chapter 34 Another Letter 117
Chapter 35 Ghetto Comes Clean 119
Chapter 36 Uncle Mo 121
Chapter 37 The Problem of Elected Judges 122
Chapter 38 The Trouble with NOBs 126
Chapter 39 Death Row 128
Chapter 40 Unringing the Bell 131
Chapter 41 Code of the Streets 133
Chapter 42 Tire Case Restated 136
Chapter 43 Anthony Graves to the Rescue 137
Chapter 44 "I Am Troy Davis" 139
Chapter 45 Ericka's True Story 141
Chapter 46 The Affidavit 144
Chapter 47 Leaving the NOBs 146
Chapter 48 Walk On 150
Part V Justice, at Last
Chapter 49 Convergence 157
Chapter 50 The "Expert" Witness 159
Chapter 51 The Conflicted Judge 162
Chapter 52 Grace from a Garage 164
Chapter 53 The Inadequate Counsel 167
Chapter 54 Elected Judges Dither 168
Chapter 55 Exoneration 175
Chapter 56 A Prayer for Dewayne 178
Chapter 57 Freedom 179
Chapter 58 Oysters and a Road Trip 181
Chapter 59 "Live your life. Live it." 184
Chapter 60 What Can Be Done? 185
Chapter 61 Scalia Was Wrong 190
Chapter 62 "It don't come down to nothing except love in the end." 193
Acknowledgments 195
Bibliography 201
Index 207