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Bezig met laden... Desire Street: A True Story of Death and Deliverance in New Orleansdoor Jed Horne
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In a New Orleans parking lot in the fall of 1984, a white housewife and grandmother was shot, and the killer, a young black man, made off with her purse, her groceries, and her car. Four days later, following a tip, authorities arrested a known drug dealer and father of five named Curtis Kyles. Kyles would then be tried for Mrs. Dye's murder five times, though he maintained his innocence, and he spent fourteen years on death row before the charges were dropped. But the case slowly yielded a deeper drama: The crime turned out to have been the side effect of an intricately plotted act of revenge. That police and prosecutors may have been complicit in framing Kyles cuts to the heart of a system of justice for Southern blacks in the era since lynch mobs were shamed into obsolescence.--From publisher description. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Jed Horne tells us a story that will curdle your blood as much as Zeitoun did, and it's just as true. A purse-snatching gone bad, a dead white church lady, a young rakehell who's no angel...*wham* went the jail doors on young Mr. Kyles, *swish* went DA Harry Connick Senior's bid for re-election, and no one cared a whit.
Except Kyles's baby-mama Pinkey. She had five kids with him, she knew him (Biblically speaking as well as socially, obviously), and she had no time for hearing that he could kill someone.
It took over 10 years, but the Supreme Court voided Kyles's conviction on factual grounds. But now what? The whole CITY was convinced that he did it. How do you fight that?
Read Desire Street and find out. It's a scream-at-the-walls infuriating read, but in the end...well, in the end, I was hoarse but I was satisfied justice had been served. Recommended. (