The Injustice System, Clive Stafford Smith
The Injustice System, Clive Stafford Smith
List: $17.99 | Sale: $12.59
Club: $8.99

The Injustice System
A Murder in Miami and a Trial Gone Wrong

Author: Clive Stafford Smith

Narrator: Jonathan Cowley

Unabridged: 12 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/08/2012

Categories: Nonfiction, Law, Criminal Law


Synopsis

A man accused of a murder he didn't commit languishes on death row. A crusading lawyer is determined to free him. This powerful book reads like a compelling legal thriller with one crucial difference: Justice is not served in the end.

In 1986, Kris Maharaj was arrested in Miami for the murder of his ex-business partner. A witness swore he saw him pull the trigger and a jury found him guilty and sentenced him to death. But he swears he didn't do it. Twenty years later, he's bankrupted himself on appeals and been abandoned by everyone but his wife.

Enter Clive Stafford Smith, a charismatic public defender with a passion for lost causes who calls up old files and embarks on his own investigation. It takes him from Miami to Nassau to Washington as he uncovers corruption at every turn. Step by step, Clive slowly dismantles the case, guiding us through the whole scaffolding of the legal process and revealing a fundamentally broken system whose goal is not so much to find the right man as to convict.

A bombshell whose final chapter should re-open a long closed case, The Injustice System will appeal to fans of true crime and anyone who has served on a jury.

About Clive Stafford Smith

Clive Stafford Smith has spent twenty-five years defending high-profile criminal cases in Georgia, Mississippi, and Louisiana. He has garnered many awards for his work, including the Gandhi International Peace Award, an International Freedom of the Press Award, and a Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Award. Clive is the author or coauthor of several books, including Injustice, Bad Men: Guantánamo Bay and the Secret Prisons, Death Row, and Eight O'Clock Ferry to the Windward Side: Seeking Justice In Guantánamo Bay, which was a finalist for the Orwell Prize. He is also the founder and director of Reprieve, a nonprofit legal defense firm in the UK.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Tim on July 24, 2012

This is a wonderful, shocking, compelling book. I have read many legal thrillers, including those by John Grisham (who endorses this book) but it is one thing to read about injustice, legal corruption and police incompetence in a fictional setting, and quite another to see it ruthlessly, thoroughly......more

Goodreads review by Stephen on April 06, 2016

A damning indictment of the American legal system. It's full of facts and examples of the way the system works (or mostly doesn't) all woven around the detailed history of one of Stafford Smith's clients on death row. All the other cases he quotes are fascinating, if also rather depressing. It makes......more

Goodreads review by Sas on July 28, 2014

An innocent man spends over a quarter century in prison for a crime he did not commit. How does he not lose faith? This story is so awful and I cannot comprehend how there are so many selfish, lying people in this world. Kris Maharaj will likely die in prison, but his lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith st......more

Goodreads review by Brett on February 03, 2013

I am a defence lawyer. Mr Stafford Smith has always been a hero as far as I'm concerned. This book helps to show why.......more

Goodreads review by Moira on February 20, 2022

Wow, what an amazing story! Gripped from the first page to the last. If I had not known from the start this is a true story I would nave thought it was an elaborate Hollywood script and with that knowledge, it is even more horrendous to know this is one man's life experience. Whether you agree with......more