The Court of Last Resort
Synopsis of The Court of Last Resort
The Court of Last Resort is the true story of a team of crime experts who fought to save the wrongfully convicted.
In 1945, Erle Stanley Gardner, noted attorney and author of the popular Perry Mason mysteries, was contacted by an overwhelmed California public defender. The defender believed his doomed client was innocent. William Marvin Lindley had been convicted of the rape and murder of a young girl along the banks of the Yuba River, and was awaiting execution at San Quentin. After reviewing the case, Gardner agreed to help—it seemed the fate of the «Red-Headed Killer» hinged on the testimony of a colorblind witness.
Gardner’s intervention sparked the CLR. The Innocence Project of its day, this ambitious and ultimately successful undertaking was devoted to investigating, reviewing, and reversing wrongful convictions owing to poor legal representation, prosecutorial abuses, biased police activity, bench corruption, unreliable witnesses, and careless forensic-evidence testimony. These cases involved: rape, murder, kidnapping, and manslaughter. The prisoners: underprivileged and vulnerable men. Wrongly convicted and condemned to life sentences or death row, their only hope was the devotion of Erle Stanley Gardner and the Court of Last Resort.
Featuring Gardner’s most damning cases of injustice from across the country, the book won the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime. Originating as a monthly column in Argosy magazine, it was produced as a dramatized court TV show for NBC.
Editorial: Open Road Media
Año: 2017
ISBN 9781504043458
Idioma: English
Synopsis of The Court of Last Resort
The Court of Last Resort is the true story of a team of crime experts who fought to save the wrongfully convicted.
In 1945, Erle Stanley Gardner, noted attorney and author of the popular Perry Mason mysteries, was contacted by an overwhelmed California public defender. The defender believed his doomed client was innocent. William Marvin Lindley had been convicted of the rape and murder of a young girl along the banks of the Yuba River, and was awaiting execution at San Quentin. After reviewing the case, Gardner agreed to help—it seemed the fate of the «Red-Headed Killer» hinged on the testimony of a colorblind witness.
Gardner’s intervention sparked the CLR. The Innocence Project of its day, this ambitious and ultimately successful undertaking was devoted to investigating, reviewing, and reversing wrongful convictions owing to poor legal representation, prosecutorial abuses, biased police activity, bench corruption, unreliable witnesses, and careless forensic-evidence testimony. These cases involved: rape, murder, kidnapping, and manslaughter. The prisoners: underprivileged and vulnerable men. Wrongly convicted and condemned to life sentences or death row, their only hope was the devotion of Erle Stanley Gardner and the Court of Last Resort.
Featuring Gardner’s most damning cases of injustice from across the country, the book won the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime. Originating as a monthly column in Argosy magazine, it was produced as a dramatized court TV show for NBC.
