Both books are meticulous to a fault in recounting the steps that led each of the men they focus on to conviction and imprisonment. Framed is more clinical, carefully assembling the stories of those wrongly imprisoned, but Slepian's book is the more compelling and emotionally wrenching of the two, starkly illuminating the unimaginable suffering of the wrongly imprisoned and their families.
Slepian's book highlights how bogus 'experts' swayed juries and how jurors often gave in to pressure from others, showcasing the vulnerabilities in our judicial process that contribute to wrongful convictions.
We the people have not summoned the 'collective will to hold people in power accountable,' he writes, illustrating the societal apathy towards addressing wrongful convictions and the shortcomings in the criminal justice system.
For now, emerging as heroes are defense lawyers who work for free, sometimes for years, to secure justice for those lacking any resources to hire lawyers to pursue their cases.
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