TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stevenson,Bryan
TI  - Just mercy: a story of justice and redemption 
SN  - 9780812994520
AV  - KF373.S743 A3 2014
U1  - 353.4/8092B 23
PY  - 2014///
KW  - Stevenson, Bryan.
KW  - Equal Justice Initiative
KW  - Social reformers
KW  - Biography
KW  - Lawyers
KW  - Criminal justice, Administration of
KW  - United States
KW  - Discrimination in criminal justice administration
KW  - Judicial error
KW  - Legal assistance to the poor
KW  - Public defenders
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-336); Introduction : higher ground -- Mockingbird players -- Stand -- Trials and tribulation -- The old rugged cross -- Of the coming of John -- Surely doomed -- Justice denied - - All God's children -- I'm here -- Mitigation -- I'll fly away -- Mother, mother -- Recovery -- Cruel and unusual -- Broken -- The stonecatchers' song of sorrow -- Epilogue
N2  - The founder of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama recounts his experiences as a lawyer working to assist those desperately in need, reflecting on his pursuit of the ideal of compassion in American justice
ER  -