Let's Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice

Paul Butler was an ambitious federal prosecutor, a Harvard Law grad who gave up his corporate law salary to fight the good fight-until one day he was arrested on the street and charged with a crime he didn't commit.

In a book Harvard law professor Charles Ogletree calls "a must read," Butler looks at places where ordinary citizens meet the justice system-as jurors, witnesses, and in encounters with the police-and explores what "doing the right thing" means in a corrupt system.

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