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Justin Brooks has spent his career freeing innocent people from prison. With You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You're Innocent, he offers up-close accounts of the cases he has fought, embedding them within a larger landscape of innocence claims and robust research on what we know about the causes of wrongful convictions. Putting listeners at the defense table, this book forces us to consider how any of us might be swept up in the system, whether we hired a bad lawyer, bear a slight resemblance to someone else in the world, or are not good with awkward silence. The stories of Brooks's cases and clients paint the picture of a broken justice system, one where innocence is no protection from incarceration or even the death penalty. Simultaneously relatable and disturbing, You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You're Innocent is essential listening for anyone who wants to better understand how injustice is served by our system.

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"""Brooks...draws upon his decades of experience fighting these nightmarish injustices to reveal what we can do to spare innocent lives in the future."" -- ""Amanda Knox, New York Times bestselling author"" ""Justin Brooks exposes the deep flaws in our legal system that have unjustly led so many into prison and onto death row. How can we trust such a system to take away the lives of our citizens? We cannot."" -- ""Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking"" ""Should be required reading for every law enforcement officer and every prosecutor in the United States and around the world."" -- ""Jeremy DeConcini, former special agent, US Department of Homeland Security"" ""The truest true crime you'll ever read, and when it's not scaring you, it will make your blood boil."" -- ""BookTrib"""

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Justin Brooks is a criminal defense lawyer, law professor, and the Founding Director of the California Innocence Project, where he has spent decades freeing innocent people from prison. He is the author of the only legal casebook devoted to the topic of wrongful convictions and was portrayed by Academy Award-nominated actor Greg Kinnear in the feature film Brian Banks. Justin Brooks is a criminal defense lawyer, law professor, and the Founding Director of the California Innocence Project, where he has spent decades freeing innocent people from prison. He is the author of the only legal casebook devoted to the topic of wrongful convictions and was portrayed by Academy Award-nominated actor Greg Kinnear in the feature film Brian Banks.

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