No Crueler Tyrannies

Accusation, False Witness, and Other Terrors of Our Times

By: Dorothy Rabinowitz

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Paperback | 2 March 2004 | Edition Number 1

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In No Crueler Tyrannies, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dorothy Rabinowitz re-frames the facts, reconsiders the evidence, and demystifies the proceedings of some of America''s most harrowing cases of failed justice. Recalling the hysteria that accompanied the child sex-abuse witch-hunts of the 1980s and 1990s, Rabinowitz''s 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 Amirault''s 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 Snowden''s 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.

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The New York Times Book Review A powerful, prosecutorial book. Rabinowitz's accounts are superb muckraking, and they got results.

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Preface	p. vii
The Amiraults	p. 1
Grant Snowden	p. 47
The Amiraults, Part Two	p. 63
Wenatchee	p. 96
The Amiraults, Part Three	p. 123
Patrick Griffin	p. 138
The Amiraults, Part Four	p. 166
John Carroll	p. 210
Afterward	p. 219
Epilogue	p. 229
Index	p. 235
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No Crueler Tyrannies

Accusation, False Witness, and Other Terrors of Our Times

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