Let's Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice (Large Print 16pt)Paul Butler was an ambitious federal prosecutor, a Harvard Law grad who gave up his corporate law salary to fight the good fight - until one day he was arrested on the street and charged with a crime he didnt commit. The Volokh Conspiracy calls Butlers account of his trial ''the most riveting first chapter I have ever read. In a book Harvard Law professor Charles Ogletree calls ''a must read, Butler looks at places where ordinary citizens meet the justice system - as jurors, witnesses, and in encounters with the police - and explores what ''doing the right thing means in a corrupt system. Since Lets Get Frees publication, Butler has become the go-to person for commentary on criminal justice and race relations; he appeared on ABC News, Good Morning America, and Fox News, published op-eds in the New York Times, and other national papers, and is in demand to speak across the country. The paperback edition brings Butlers groundbreaking and highly controversial arguments - jury nullification (voting ''not guilty in drug cases as a form of protest), just saying ''no when the police request your permission to search, and refusing to work inside the system as a snitch or a prosecutor - to a whole new audience. |
Contents
Safety First Why Mass Incarceration Matters | 31 |
Justice on Drugs | 56 |
Jury Duty Power to the People | 77 |
Patriot Acts Dont Be a Snitch Do Be a Witness | 109 |
Should Good People Be Prosecutors? | 140 |
A HipHop Theory of Justice | 170 |
Droppin Science HighTech Justice | 202 |
The Beautiful Struggle Seven Ways to Take Back | 228 |
NOTES | 255 |
Back Cover Material | 321 |
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