Let's Get Free

<p><strong>Radical ideas for changing the justice system rooted in the real-life experiences of those in overpoliced communities from the acclaimed former federal prosecutor and author of <em>Chokehold</em></strong></p><p>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 didn't commit.</p><p>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. No matter how powerless those caught up in the web of the law may feel there is a chance to regain agency argues Butler. Through groundbreaking and sometimes controversial methods—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—ordinary people can tip the system towards actual justice. <em>Let’s Get Free</em> is an evocative compelling look at the steps we can collectively take to reform our broken system.</p>