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๐ถ๐ถ๐ถ๐ถ: The Sing Sing Files: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice, by Dan Slepian
WOWOWOWOW Dan Slepian ! What an incredible book filled with true stories of the unjust realities plaguing our criminal justice system. As a Dateline investigative journalist, Mr. Slepian unearthed some disturbing details that will make the average American's jaw drop. These are actual cases in which he helped free wrongly-accused inmates after tireless effort.
One would assume these cases were tried in such a manner that mistakes were made by prosecutors and juries in convicting these people - that the accused must have found themselves on the wrong side of the law because they had made bad decisions or were in the wrong place at the wrong time. However, this book contradicts these long-held assumptions; these were often cases where the accused were either nowhere near the crime scene, were not criminals beforehand, and/or had strong alibis to support their innocence. I was blown away by these stories, knowing that any day, any one of us could be wrongfully convicted, and it would take decades to clear our name despite overwhelming evidence proving our innocence.
Dan Slepian's writing was engrossing, and I found myself unable to tear myself away. True crime followers, you'll love this book. But even people like me who have never watched a full episode of Dateline will be lured in by the stories Mr. Slepian has presented.
Kudos Mr. Slepian for not only uncovering the truth, but for giving these people back their rightly-owed freedom. I am in disbelief that this happens so frequently in this great nation of ours. But I am also grateful to learn of these stories and men like JJ who have turned something that could have destroyed them into something that holds others up and gives them hope in these rather hopeless situations.
Many, many thanks to partners, Celadon Books
and NetGalley for these gifted review copies.
Read 9/19/24
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