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About this book
Radical ideas for changing the justice system, rooted in the real-life experiences of those in overpoliced communities, from the acclaimed former federal prosecutor and author of Chokehold
Paul Butler was an ambitious federal prosecutor, a Harvard Law grad who gave up his corporate law salary to fight the good fight—until one day he was arrested on the street and charged with a crime he didn't commit.
In a book Harvard Law professor Charles Ogletree calls “a must-read,” Butler looks at places where ordinary citizens meet the justice system—as jurors, witnesses, and in encounters with the police—and explores what “doing the right thing” means in a corrupt system. No matter how powerless those caught up in the web of the law may feel, there is a chance to regain agency, argues Butler. Through groundbreaking and sometimes controversial methods—jury nullification (voting “not guilty” in drug cases as a form of protest), just saying “no” when the police request your permission to search, and refusing to work inside the system as a snitch or a prosecutor—ordinary people can tip the system towards actual justice. Let’s Get Free is an evocative, compelling look at the steps we can collectively take to reform our broken system.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- 1 - The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game: A Prosecutor Meets American Criminal Justice
- 2 - Safety First: Why Mass Incarceration Matters
- 3 - Justice on Drugs
- 4 - Jury Duty: Power to the People
- 5 - Patriot Acts: Don’t Be a Snitch, Do Be a Witness, and Don’t Always Help ...
- 6 - Should Good People Be Prosecutors?
- 7 - A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice
- 8 - Droppin’ Science: High-Tech Justice
- 9 - The Beautiful Struggle: Seven Ways to Take Back Justice
- NOTES
- Copyright Page