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Manifest Injustice: The True Story of a Convicted Murderer and the Lawyers Who Fought for His Freedom

Barry Siegel

The legal drama of a man who'd spent almost forty years in prison for murders he denied committing and the tenacious lawyers who believed in his innocence.

True Crime & JusticeTrue Crime & Justice · high confidenceTrue Crime & Justice81 signalsLlm Classifier: True Crime & Justice -> True Crime & JusticeGoogle Books: Law -> True Crime & JusticeTopic Classifier: Intellectual Biography -> BiographyIntellectual Biography

Award History

0 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current InterestMajor2013FinalistSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

    These suggestions did not meet the normal display threshold and are more likely to be wrong.

    • a convicted murderer38%
    • the lawyers36%

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

    This suggestion did not meet the normal display threshold and is more likely to be wrong.

    The book presents the conviction and decades-long imprisonment of a man who denied the murders as unjust, arguing that the lawyers’ determination to prove his innocence was justified.

    Model confidence 45%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    28 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 44%.