The Guardians by Joseph M. Sauter (.PDF)
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The Guardians: The True Story of The Saints of Dannemora by Joseph M. Sauter, Sheldon Abend, Isidore Zimmerman
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Overview: Blind Justice
Izzy “Beansy’ Zimmerman: Convicted of a crime he didn’t commit, given “natural life” only after he’d finally accepted his electric chair death warrant. Now, he didn’t care if he lived or died. Sing Sing, Attica, Auburn, Dannemora—each cell, each fight, each brutal beating, each day of darkness and cold, bread and water, only made him tougher, harder, more embittered. But he was just one of thousands who had been wrongly convicted through faulty courtroom procedures, incompetent or criminal defense lawyers, DA’s, and presiding judges. To keep their sanity, the inmates could not accept their fate. For there was always the chance that someday their cases would be reopened. And the only hope for these reforms were jailhouse lawyers—men like Peewee Weiss and Mike Golding —Beansy’s friends and the Warden’s enemies. These self-taught attorneys, their smuggled-in law books hidden all over the
prison, got thrown into the box every time they were caught trying to get a little justice for somebody.
Their legal expertise was astounding. Their compassion and dedication was relentless. And the tremendous strides they made to free the innocent and right society’s wrongs led them to be known as
The Saints of Dannemora
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs
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