No Crueler Tyrannies: Accusation False Witness and Other Terrors of Our Times (Wall Street Journal Book)

In No Crueler Tyrannies Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dorothy Rabinowitz re-frames the facts reconsiders the evidence and demystifies the proceedings of some of Americas most harrowing cases of failed justice. Recalling the hysteria that accompanied the child sex-abuse witch-hunts of the 1980s and 1990s Rabinowitzs investigative study brings to life such alarming examples of prosecutorial terrors as the case against New Jersey nursery school worker Kelly Michaels absurdly accused of 280 counts of sexual assault; the as-yet-unfinished story of Gerald Amiraults involvement in the Fells Acres scandal; Patrick Griffin a respected physician whose life and reputation were destroyed by one false accusation of molestation; and Miami policeman Grant Snowdens sentencing of five consecutive life terms for a crime that as proved in court eleven years later he did not commit. By turns a shocking exposé a much-needed postmortem and a required-reading assignment for prosecutors and judges alike No Crueler Tyrannies is ultimately an inspiring book about the courage of ordinary citizens who believe in the American judicial system enough to fight for due process.