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The National Registry of Exonerations reports more than 3,499 exonerations since 1989, reflecting more than 31,900 years of wrongful imprisonment. Any trial judge contributing to a wrongful conviction should be haunted unto the grave by that knowledge. But are they? In Extreme Cruelty, Judge Steven Dankof posits that trial judges are the single greatest cause of wrongful convictions, and examines why this is so. Extreme Cruelty sounds a clarion call for judges to come out from behind hackneyed appellate court platitudes, take a penetrating look at themselves and their work, and breathe life into their Constitutional oaths and an independent judiciary. What remains of a once free people demands nothing less.

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"""Extreme Cruelty should be required reading for everyone working in the courts and anyone interested in a meaningful dialogue about criminal justice reform. I could not put this book down."" -Gilbert King, Pulitzer Prize Winner for DEVIL IN THE GROVE: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America ""It will behoove readers who care about justice to follow the guidance of Judge Steve Dankof as he sweeps back and forth across history to make the administration of our laws-in all their Byzantine complexities-understandable. This is a gifted chronicler who cares about the times in which we must endure."" -Wil Haygood, author of SHOWDOWN: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination that Changed America ""The great Frederick Douglass said, in another trying time for our democracy and the rule of law: 'It is not light that is needed, but the fire; not the gentle shower, but the thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, the earthquake-the conscience of the nation must be roused.' Judge Steve Dankof, in this terrific little book, is the thunder, not the gentle shower."" -Gene Nichol, Tinsley Distinguished Professor of Law, University of North Carolina, author of THE FACES OF POVERTY IN NORTH CAROLINA and INDECENT ASSEMBLY"

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