{"product_id":"ordinary-injustice-how-america-holds-court-9780805092271","title":"Ordinary Injustice: How America Holds Court","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A groundbreaking book . . . revealing the systemic, everyday problems in our courts that must be addressed if justice is truly to be served.\"--Doris Kearns Goodwin\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAttorney and journalist Amy Bach spent eight years investigating the widespread courtroom failures that each day upend lives across America. What she found was an assembly-line approach to justice: a system that rewards mediocre advocacy, bypasses due process, and shortchanges both defendants and victims to keep the court calendar moving. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere is the public defender who pleads most of his clients guilty with scant knowledge about their circumstances; the judge who sets outrageous bail for negligible crimes; the prosecutor who habitually declines to pursue significant cases; the court that works together to achieve a wrongful conviction. Going beyond the usual explanations of bad apples and meager funding, \u003ci\u003eOrdinary Injustice\u003c\/i\u003e reveals a clubby legal culture of compromise, and shows the tragic consequences that result when communities mistake the rules that lawyers play by for the rule of law. It is time, Bach argues, to institute a new method of checks and balances that will make injustice visible--the first and necessary step to reform.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/03\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780805092271\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.96h x 5.16w x 0.87d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/03\/2010 pg. 32\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Amy Bach","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42924922208437,"sku":"9780805092271","price":20.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_2fe8ae09-8824-4cbf-8973-68bfc5c026f9.jpg?v=1687841432","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/ordinary-injustice-how-america-holds-court-9780805092271","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}