BARRED JUSTICE
A Memoir of Innocence and Deceit
by John Oliver Green
A trial drama befitting a John Grisham novel ensues.
The attorney learns that seized documents, which would have proved his innocence, have been destroyed and other records supposedly have been lost or so they say. His defense attorney begins proceedings by spreading tobacco over the courtroom--an Indian ritual to curse the prosecution, or so he claims. The defendant’s former client's wife commits perjury to avoid prosecution, all the while concealing that she has an IRS agreement allowing her to keep their drug money and property, tax free, in exchange for her testimony.
The young lawyer is convicted and sent to prison. Years later, he learns how he was unjustly convicted when a retiring Special Agent friend he used to work with mails him boxes of IRS and FBI records, along with grand jury documents. Using these, he investigates his own case, and learns how the judicial system was manipulated.
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