Circumstantial Evidence

Death, Life, and Justice in a Southern Town

by Pete Earley

Pete Earley, author of "The Hot House," visits Monroeville, Alabama, which Harper Lee fictionalized into the setting for "To Kill A Mockingbird." However, it seems that racial tensions have not died down much in the town since the publication of Lee's novel. In 1986, an 18-year-old white woman was shot and killed in a dry cleaning store. Four months later, another white teenager was killed in a town 36 miles away. "Johnny D." McMillian, a Black man with no prior criminal record, was convicted of the crimes and sentenced to death with a swiftness that didn't seem to unsettle anyone, except a Harvard-educated northern Black lawyer named Bryan Stevenson appealed the case and ultimately won.

Available editions of Circumstantial Evidence

	9780553763560, Paperback, Bantam Dell Pub Group, 1995 $13.97 (NEW) Other copies of 9780553763560

	9780553095012, Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group, 1995 $1.00 (Used, Very Good) Other copies of 9780553095012

	9780553573480, Paperback, Bantam Books, 1996 $1.00 (Used, Very Good) Other copies of 9780553573480

Publisher Notes

Pete Earleys The Hot House gave America a riveting, uncompromising look at the nations most notorious prison--the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas--a book that Kirkus Reviews called a "fascinating white-knuckle tour of hell, brilliantly reported." Now Earley shows us a different, even more intimate view of justice--and injustice--American-style.In Monroeville, Alabama, in the fall of 1986, a pretty junior college student was found murdered in the back of the dry cleaning shop where she worked. Several months later, Walter "Johnny D." McMillian, a black man with no criminal record, was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death for the crime. As McMillian sat in his cell on Alabama's death row, a young black lawyer named Bryan Stevenson took up his own investigation into the murder of Ronda Morrison. Finding a trial tainted by procedural mistakes, conflicting eyewitness accounts, and outright perjury, he was determined to see McMillian go free--even if it took the most unconventional means...

Media Reviews

"Without preaching, Mr. Earley shows how subtle and overt racism conspired to condemn a man while giving lip service to the legal system's supposed objectivity....'Circumstantial Evidence' leaves readers outraged that an innocent man could be so easily condemned."

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