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The Court of Last Resort : The True Story of a Team of Crime Experts Who Fought to Save the Wrongfully Convicted, eAudiobook MP3 eaudioBook

The Court of Last Resort : The True Story of a Team of Crime Experts Who Fought to Save the Wrongfully Convicted eAudiobook MP3

Narrated by Mel Foster

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The creator of Perry Masons Edgar Awardwinning account of miscarriages of justice, wrongful convictions, legal battles, and landmark reversals.

In 1945, Erle Stanley Gardner, noted attorney and author of the popular Perry Mason mysteries, was contacted by an overwhelmed California public defender who 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 helpit seemed the fate of the Red-Headed Killer hinged on the testimony of a colorblind witness.

Gardners intervention sparked the Court of Last Resort. 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. The crimes: rape, murder, kidnapping, and manslaughter. The prisoners: underprivileged and vulnerable men wrongly convicted and condemned to life sentences or death row with only one hopethe devotion of Erle Stanley Gardner and the Court of Last Resort.

Featuring Gardners most damning cases of injustice from across the country, The Court of Last Resort 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.

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