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Let's Pretend Everything's Okay

By: Andrew Frank Klimko

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Let's Pretend Everything's Okay

By: Andrew Frank Klimko

Can there be a parallel universe? A successful lawyer finds himself in prison and later robbing a bank in one while in another he experiences disturbing images of events occurring in the first. His melancholy and strange behavior causes him and his wife to separate. He thinks he is going insane yet physical and psychological examinations fail to show that. Their daughter is successful in her career and happily married, but their son lacks ambition and day-dreams of flying airplanes. Reluctant to divulge his troubling images to doctors, the lawyer seeks help from a Chinese marriage counselor to quell the images and thoughts disturbing him. Two foundlings who grew up feeling unwanted in an orphanage cross paths with the lawyer in one level and on another with the son while angry `patriots' plan a deadly attack on the government and its leaders but they and the son disrupt their plans. The lawyer and his wife reconcile in an unusual way while other couples also find their `true path' after making destructive choices based on their lower levels of emotions.

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The Wrong Carlos

Anatomy of a Wrongful Execution

By: James S. Liebman,Shawn Crowley,Andrew Markquart,Lauren Rosenberg

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Anatomy of a Wrongful Execution

By: James S. Liebman,Shawn Crowley,Andrew Markquart,Lauren Rosenberg

In 1989, Texas executed Carlos DeLuna, a poor Hispanic man with childlike intelligence, for the murder of Wanda Lopez, a convenience store clerk. His execution passed unnoticed for years until a team of Columbia Law School faculty and students almost accidentally chose to investigate his case and found that DeLuna almost certainly was innocent. They discovered that no one had cared enough about either the defendant or the victim to make sure the real perpetrator was found. Everything that could go wrong in a criminal case did. This book documents DeLunaÕs conviction, which was based on a single, nighttime, cross-ethnic eyewitness identification with no corroborating forensic evidence. At his trial, DeLunaÕs defense, that another man named Carlos had committed the crime, was not taken seriously. The lead prosecutor told the jury that the other Carlos, Carlos Hernandez, was a ÒphantomÓ of DeLunaÕs imagination. In upholding the death penalty on appeal, both the state and federal courts concluded the same thing: Carlos Hernandez did not exist. The evidence the Columbia team uncovered reveals that Hernandez not only existed but was well known to the police and prosecutors. He had a long history of violent crimes similar to the one for which DeLuna was executed. Families of both Carloses mistook photos of each for the other, and HernandezÕs violence continued after DeLuna was put to death. This book and its website (thewrongcarlos.net) reproduce law-enforcement, crime lab, lawyer, court, social service, media, and witness records, as well as court transcripts, photographs, radio traffic, and audio and videotaped interviews, documenting one of the most comprehensive investigations into a criminal case in U.S. history. The result is eye-opening yet may not be unusual. Faulty eyewitness testimony, shoddy legal representation, and prosecutorial misfeasance continue to put innocent people at risk of execution. The principal investigators conclude with novel suggestions for improving accuracy among the police, prosecutors, forensic scientists, and judges.

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0231167229

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And So Forth and So on

Memoirs of an Ordinary Man

By: Andrew Frank Klimko

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Memoirs of an Ordinary Man

By: Andrew Frank Klimko

Seldom does one come across a small town such as Escalante, Utah, with so many gifted storytellers of tall tales and all shades inbetween. From the time the first Mormon settlers came trudging into Potato Valley, later to be called Escalante after the Escalante River that flows through the valley, these sturdy pioneers, all of them poorer than Job s turkey, seemed to thrive on hard work and humor. The Lord Himself must have chuckled when Bishop Andrew Schow, faithful old Dane that he was, prayed for rain. "Heavenly Father," he intoned for a group of his farmer friends, "Thou knowest how bone dry it s been here this entire summer, so please send us some rain, a nice gentle rain and not one of them old gully washers!" The good Lord, tis said, was so delighted with this heartfelt prayer that He sent that nice gentle rain the very next afternoon. Or take the time that drinking buddies Hanley Bailey and Lamon Griffin got into a squabble over politics one night. Lamon s patience at an end, he hauled off and clipped Hanley on the chin and broke his jaw. Six weeks later when Hanley finally got the fine copper wiring removed from his upper and lower teeth so he could talk again, he was asked about the nature of the altercation. "Well, sir," he said mock seriously, "it wuz like this---I wuz broadcastin when I should a been tunin in!" This book, definitely a MUST read, is a delight from start to finish. Readers will return to its pages again and again to savor the charming stories and anecdotes. . . .

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