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BL
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989609
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b743979
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| Uniform Title
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Dead alive
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| Main Entry
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Collins, Wilkie,1824-1889.
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| Title & Author
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Wilkie Collins's The dead alive : : the novel, the case, and wrongful convictions /\ Rob Warden ; foreword by Scott Turow.
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| Publication Statement
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Evanston, Ill. :: Northwestern University Press,, ©2005.
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xi, 178 pages :: illustrations ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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0810122944
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: 9780810122949
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-178).
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| Contents
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The dead alive / Wilkie Collins. The sick man -- The new faces -- The moonlight-meeting -- The beechen stick -- The news from Narrabee -- The lime-kiln -- The materials in the defence -- The confession -- The advertisement -- The sheriff and the governor -- The pebble and the window -- The end of it.
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Wrongful convictions / Rob Warden. The Boorn case -- Stephen Boorn's written confession -- Other dead alive cases -- Wrongful convictions in U.S. capital cases -- Bibliography.
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| Abstract
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"In the United States on a book tour in 1873, Wilkie Collins, a popular British novelist of the era, read about the case of Jesse and Stephen Boorn, who were convicted of and sentenced to death for the murder of their brother-in-law in 1819 and exonerated the following year. Upon his return to England, Collins wrote The Dead Alive, arguably the world's original legal thriller and the first novel known to have been inspired by a documented wrongful conviction, itself the first on record in.
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Jurisprudence - and of the need to question and correct a system that continues to condemn the innocent."--BOOK JACKET.
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The United States." "Rob Warden, one of the country's most eloquent and effective advocates for the wrongly convicted, presents this classic work with accounts of a number of other real-life "dead alive" cases known to have occurred in the United States. A tale of false confessions and jailhouse snitches, of evidence overlooked and justice more blinkered than blind, the story of the Boorn brothers is a troubling reminder of the perennial nature of the flaws at the heart of American.
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Attorney and client, Fiction.
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Judicial error, Fiction.
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Trials (Murder), Fiction.
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Attorney and client.
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Judicial error.
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Trials (Murder)
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| Dewey Classification
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823/.8
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PR4494.D427 2005
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Warden, Rob.
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| Parallel Title
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Dead alive
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