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Product Management's Sacred Seven: The Skills Required to Crush Product Manager Interviews and be a World-Class PM (Fast Forward Your Product Career: The Two Books Required to Land Any PM Job)

Parth Detroja , Neel Mehta , et al.

4.8 on Amazon

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Model Rules of Professional Conduct

American Bar Association Center for Professional Responsibility

4.6 on Amazon

1 HN comments

War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony

Nelson A Denis

4.9 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts

Antonin Scalia and Bryan A. Garner

4.8 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Token Economy: How the Web3 reinvents the Internet

Shermin Voshmgir

4.7 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Young Men and Fire: Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition

Norman Maclean and Timothy Egan

4.6 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America

Gilbert King

4.7 on Amazon

1 HN comments

The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir

Samantha Power and HarperAudio

4.7 on Amazon

1 HN comments

One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School

Scott Turow

4.5 on Amazon

1 HN comments

The Legal Analyst: A Toolkit for Thinking about the Law

Ward Farnsworth

4.8 on Amazon

1 HN comments

The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town

John Grisham, Craig Wasson, et al.

4.4 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Working for Yourself: Law & Taxes for Independent Contractors, Freelancers & Gig Workers of All Types

Stephen Fishman J.D.

4.6 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Examples & Explanations: Civil Procedure

Joseph W. Glannon

4.7 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI

Robert K. Ressler , Tom Shachtman , et al.

4.7 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Yes Please

Amy Poehler, Carol Burnett, et al.

4.3 on Amazon

1 HN comments

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Nelson69onFeb 10, 2010

We've pretty clearly executed the wrong people since there has been DNA testing too. Grisham wrote a non-fiction about it "The Innocent Man." There is some heavy stuff in it.

I guess I'm kind of torn, I think we want prosecutors to be aggressive when they go to court. One the case is over, it seems like they need to be removed, their opinion on DNA testing or other things should no longer be needed. DNA or not, how do you convict an innocent man of a crime he didn't do? Just incredibly bad luck and circumstantial evidence? I don't buy that, not if he has a good defense which he's entitled to. The other thing in this Grisham book is that a lot of the mis-convicted folks are poorer, maybe not the most emotionally balanced, and often kind of outsiders in their communities (like the black guy in the all white town, or the dark haired gothic guy in the rural community) and there is more than just DNA evidence that have been perverted. To have any reasonable oversight or feed back into the system, you'd have to remove the prosecutor once his job is done.

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