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All Quiet at Mena

By: Mara Leveritt

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Sometime after Barry Seal, the smuggler and DEA informant, began hiding his planes in Mena, Arkansas, the line to separate politics from criminal investigations was crossed. Investigators watching Seal knew that unexplained cash was flooding Arkansas. They knew that Seal had cleared a private airstrip in the mountains north of Mena. What they couldn’t understand was why their reports were kept as concealed as Seal’s planes. ALL QUIET AT MENA is their story—and the story of others who fought unsuccessfully to uncover the truth. In writing their stories, it also unexpectedly became partly my own.

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Bird Call Press

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0979189640

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9780979189647

The Boys on the Tracks

Death, Denial, and a Mother's Crusade to Bring Her Son's Killers to Justice

By: Mara Leveritt

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The Boys on the Tracks

Death, Denial, and a Mother's Crusade to Bring Her Son's Killers to Justice

By: Mara Leveritt

The Boys on the Tracks is the story of a parent's worst nightmare, a quiet woman's confrontation with a world of murder, drugs, and corruption, where legitimate authority is mocked and the public trust is trampled. It is an intensely personal story and a story of national importance. It is a tale of multiple murders and of justice repeatedly denied. The death of a child is bad enough. To learn that the child was murdered is worse. But few tragedies compare with the story of Linda Ives, whose teenage son and his friend were found mysteriously run over by a train. In the months that followed, Ives's world darkened even more as she gradually came to understand that the very officials she turned to for help could not, or would not, solve the murders. The story of betrayal begins locally but quickly expands. Exposing a web of silence and complicity in which drugs, politics, and murder converge, The Boys on the Tracks is a horrifying story from first page to last, and its most frightening aspect is that all of the story is true. Mara Leveritt has covered this story since it first broke back in 1987. Her approach is one of scrupulous reporting and lively narrative. She weaves profiles and events into a smooth and chilling whole, one that leads the readers to confront, along with Linda Ives, the events' profoundly disturbing implications. A powerful story reminiscent of A Civil Action and Not Without My Daughter, The Boys on the Tracks is destined to become one of the most powerful works published in 1999.

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384

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Thomas Dunne Books

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0312198418

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9780312198411

Devil's Knot

By: Mara Leveritt

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Devil's Knot

By: Mara Leveritt

Based on a true story, this edition of Devil's Knot will tie-in to a major motion picture starring Academy Award winners Reese Witherspoon and Colin Firth. This riveting portrait of a small Arkansas town recounts the all-too-true story of a brutal triple murder and the eighteen-year imprisonment of three innocent teenagers. For weeks in 1993, after the grisly murders of three eight-year-old boys, police in West Memphis, Arkansas, seemed stumped. Then suddenly, detectives charged three teenagers - alleged members of a satanic cult - with the killings. Despite the witch-hunt atmosphere of the trials and a case that included stunning investigative blunders, the teenagers, who became known as the West Memphis Three, were convicted. Jurors sentenced Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley to life in prison and Damien Echols, the accused ringleader, to death. The guilty verdicts were popular in their home state - even upheld on appeal - and all three remained in prison until their unprecedented release in August 2011. In Devil's Knot, award-winning investigative journalist Mara Leveritt presents the most comprehensive, insightful reporting ever done on this story - one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in American legal history. In-depth research, meticulous reconstruction of the investigation and close-up views of its key participants unravel the many tangled knots of this endlessly shocking case.

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Simon and Schuster

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1471131076

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9781471131073

Devil's Knot

By: Mara Leveritt

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By: Mara Leveritt

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All Quiet at Mena

By: Mara Leveritt

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Athletes’ Human Rights and the Fight Against Doping: A Study of the European Legal Framework

By: Bart van der Sloot,Mara Paun,Ronald Leenes

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Athletes’ Human Rights and the Fight Against Doping: A Study of the European Legal Framework

By: Bart van der Sloot,Mara Paun,Ronald Leenes

This book addresses the tension between, on the one hand, anti-doping practices and measures and, on the other hand, the fundamental rights of athletes. New techniques for testing and re-testing samples taken several years ago, have caused a push by the World Anti-Doping Agency and affiliated organizations for stricter rules, more doping tests and higher sanctions. Meanwhile, many States are adopting new laws and regulations to facilitate this push. At the same time, privacy and data protection have gained new momentum, especially in the European Union, where the General Data Protection Regulation came into effect in May 2018. It contains new obligations for data controllers and processors, rights for data subjects and sanctions for those violating the data protection rules. It is clear that gathering whereabouts information on athletes, collecting urine and blood samples, analyzing the samples and using the data distilled there from falls within the scope of the data protection framework. In addition, European athletes can invoke their rights to privacy, fair trial and freedom from discrimination as guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights. The book is aimed at professionals and organizations involved in sports and anti-doping and provides them with an opportunity to delve into and understand the rights guaranteed to athletes within the European context. Furthermore, it is equally relevant for privacy and data protection lawyers and human rights scholars wishing to familiarize themselves with the difficult questions relating to human rights protection in the world of sport and anti-doping. Written in accessible language, it should also prove useful to athletes and laymen wanting to learn about the rules applicable to almost everyone who practices sport, even at a local amateur level. Bart van der Sloot is senior researcher at Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands, Mara Paun is PhD researcher at Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands, Ronald Leenes is professor at Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands.

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Springer Nature

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Athletes’ Human Rights and the Fight Against Doping: A Study of the European Legal Framework

Athletes’ Human Rights and the Fight Against Doping: A Study of the European Legal Framework

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