Let's Get Free A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice [Paperback]

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.The Volokh Conspiracycalls Butler’s account of his trial the most riveting first chapter I have ever read.

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.

SinceLet’s Get Free’s publication in spring 2009, Butler has become the go-to person for commentary on criminal justice and race relations: he appeared on ABC News,Good Morning America, and Fox News, published op-eds in theNew York Timesand other national papers, and is in demand to speak across the country. The paperback edition brings Butler’s groundbreaking and highly controversial arguments—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—to a whole new audience.

A former federal prosecutor,Paul Butleris the country’s leading expert on jury nullification. He provides legal commentary for CNN, NPR, and the Fox News Network, and has been featured on60 Minutesand profiled in theWashington Post. He has written for thePost, theBoston Globe, and theLos Angeles Times, and is a law professor at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

Useful analyses and original suggestions regarding the debate about how best to incarcerate fewer people . . . a debate that should have begun years ago. —California Lawyer

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