American Injustice : HarperCollins : 9781665064491 : 1665064498 : 25 Jan 2022 : From the fearless defense attorney and civil rights lawyer who rose to fame with Netflix's The Staircase comes a "stellar?and often shocking?report on a broken criminal justice system." (Kirkus, Starred Review) In the past thirty years alone, more than 2,800 innocent American prisoners ? their combined sentences surpassing 25,000 years ? have been exonerated and freed after being condemned for crimes they did not commit. Terrifyingly, this number represents only a fraction of the actual number of persons wrongfully accused and convicted over the same period.  Renowned criminal defense and civil rights attorney David Rudolf has spent decades defending the wrongfully accused. In American Injustice, he draws from his years of experience in the American criminal legal system to shed light on the misconduct that exists at all levels of law enforcement and the tragic consequences that follow in its wake. Tracin