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Coerced confessions. Fabricated evidence. Arresting and prosecuting the innocent. While attention has rightfully been focused recently on police brutality in the street, the abuse of power in that context is only the tip of the iceberg. The problems are systemic. They spread beyond abuse in the street and pervade the entire criminal justice system.

From the fearless defense attorney and civil rights lawyer who rose to fame with Netflix’s The Staircase comes a “bracing account of abuses of power and corruption in the criminal justice system.” (The Guardian) “A fine companion to Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy and Emily...

State of Florida vs. Krishna Maharaj is an investigative journey that spans 30 years in the American justice system, beginning when a British-Trinidadian businessman was arrested for a grisly double murder in 1980s Miami.

State of North Carolina vs. Charles Ray Finch is a story that takes us back to the Civil Rights Era American South, a tale formed in the cauldron of racial tensions in rural North Carolina that erupts when a white country store owner is gunned down in a robbery.

Der französische Bildhauer Auguste Bartholdi tourt durch die Vereinigten Staaten, um Geld für sein neuestes Projekt zu sammeln: die Freiheitsstatue! Doch der Gefängnisdirektor Abraham Locker will auf der Felseninsel vor New York lieber ein ausbruchsicheres Gefängnis bauen und sabotiert Bartholdis Pläne, wo er kann. Zum Glück hält Lucky Luke seine schützende Hand über den Franzosen. Deshalb soll er ihn auch nach Europa begleiten, um den Transport der Statue nach Amerika zu sichern.