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008    170306s2018    nyu      b    000 0 eng c 
010      2017009508 
020    9781610396912|q(hardcover) 
020    161039691X|q(hardcover) 
035    (OCoLC)965806090 
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092    614.109762|bBAL 
100 1  Balko, Radley,|eauthor. 
245 14 The cadaver king and the country dentist :|ba true story 
       of injustice in the American South /|cRadley Balko and 
       Tucker Carrington ; foreword by John Grisham. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bPublicAffairs,|c2018. 
300    xxii, 391 pages ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-391). 
520    After two three-year-old girls were raped and murdered in 
       rural Mississippi, law enforcement pursued and convicted 
       two innocent men: Kennedy Brewer and Levon Brooks. 
       Together they spent a combined thirty years in prison 
       before finally being exonerated in 2008. Meanwhile, the 
       real killer remained free. The Cadaver King and the 
       Country Dentist chronicles how the courts and 
       Mississippi's death investigation system--a relic of the 
       Jim Crow era--failed to deliver justice for its citizens 
       and recounts the horrifying story of the two men who built
       successful careers on the back of this system. For nearly 
       two decades, medical examiner Dr. Steven Hayne performed 
       the vast majority of Mississippi's autopsies, while his 
       friend Dr. Michael West, a local dentist, pitched himself 
       as a forensic jack-of-all-trades. Together they became the
       go-to experts for prosecutors and helped put countless 
       Mississippians in prison. But then some of those 
       convictions began to fall apart.  Radley Balko and Tucker 
       Carrington argue that bad forensics, structural racism, 
       and institutional failures are at fault, and raise 
       sobering questions about our criminal justice system's 
       ability to address them. 
600 10 Hayne, Steven|q(Forensic pathologist) 
600 10 West, Michael|q(Dentist) 
600 10 Brooks, Levon,|d1959-|vTrials, litigation, etc. 
600 10 Brewer, Kennedy|vTrials, litigation, etc. 
650  0 Criminal justice, Administration of|zMississippi. 
650  0 Judicial error|zMississippi. 
650  0 Trials (Rape)|zMississippi. 
650  0 Trials (Murder)|zMississippi. 
700 1  Carrington, Tucker|q(W. Tucker),|eauthor.