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OverviewHeavy Justice is the inside story of one of the great courtroom battles of our time. Gregory Garrison, the special prosecutor in the case, and Randy Roberts, historian and eminent boxing scholar, recount the trial that put heavyweight champion Mike Tyson behind bars. With all the drama, verve, and procedural detail of a novel by John Grisham or Scott Turow, this is also a highly topical morality play touching on all the issues of sex, race, celebrity, and justice that now so perplex our society. When he first heard about the Tyson case, Greg Garrison wanted nothing to do with it. Date rape? Always tough to prove. And one of the few facts already reported was that the young woman making the accusation had been in the defendant's hotel room at two o'clock in the morning. This case was dead on arrival, except that when Desiree Washington told her story, Garrison believed her. So drawing on this simple trust, and inspired by Desiree's courage and conviction, he accepted the challenge of this ""unwinnable"" case, stepping into the ring against not only Mike Tyson, multimillionaire sports celebrity and hero to millions, and Don King, cheerleader, but also the Washington law firm of Williams & Connolly, perhaps the slickest and most powerful defense counsel money could buy. Originally published in 1994, Heavy Justice brings together the worlds of big-time sports, lowlife sleaze, painstaking police work, and the lofty realms of Harvard's Alan Dershowitz to offer us a thoroughly absorbing account of one of the century's most important legal cases. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Randy Roberts , J.Gregory GarrisonPublisher: University of Arkansas Press Imprint: University of Arkansas Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.515kg ISBN: 9781557286000ISBN 10: 1557286000 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 29 February 2000 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsA pile-driving and relentless narrative that far transcends the usual true crime story. . . . What is told here . . . is nothing short of a heart-breaking American tragedy. --Gerald Early, author of Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prize-fighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture A pile-driving and relentless narrative that far transcends the usual true crime story. . . . What is told here . . . is nothing short of a heart-breaking American tragedy. Gerald Early, author of Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prize-fighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture The Indianapolis special prosecutor who put heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson in prison for rape offers a trial recap full of interesting inside details. Aided by Roberts (History/Purdue; Jack Dempsey, 1974), Garrison, in the first quarter of the book, reconstructs the tangled early investigation of Tyson's July 1991 date rape of Desiree Washington, a teenage contestant in the Miss Black America pageant. Garrison's narrative gains momentum as he himself joins the case, concluding in his own mind that the intention of Desiree (as she's called throughout the book) in her late-night visit to Tyson's hotel room was innocent, not gold-digging. Energized for the fight, Garrison grills Tyson's former associate Jose Torres, who says a master boxer like Tyson can lie with conviction, and questions fellow prosecutors about Tyson's lawyer, Vincent Fuller, who successfully defended would-be presidential assassin John Hinckley. He offers much insight on trial strategy, including facing prospective jurors, eliciting powerful testimony from Washington, and cross-examining the confident Tyson, whose lawyers took the awkward tack of arguing that the defendant was so crude any woman would have known what she was getting into. Tyson got six years, and his appeals have so far failed. Garrison doesn't shy away from the racial overtones of the case, noting the enclave mentality of some black Tyson defenders, but he could have done more to question jurors about the case and to discuss Washington's civil litigation against Tyson. If a bit self-serving and understandably incomplete, a solid and readable account of a controversial case. (Kirkus Reviews) Author InformationJ. Gregory Garrison is a partner in the Indianapolis law firm of Garrison & Kiefer and has not lost a jury trial in twenty years. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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