救赎正义：从被告到辩护人，我在一个破碎的体系中为公平而战

“一本感人、制作精美的回忆录。”-斯科特·特罗
“一种大胆的、正当的反抗行为。”-沙卡·森格尔
“简直就是英雄。”-约翰·格里沙姆
他17岁时，一个白人陪审团因他没有犯的罪行判处他入狱。如今，他是一名开拓性的律师，他回忆起自己被免除责任的历程，并激励他毕生致力于与我们法律体系中的诸多不公正现象作斗争。
Jarrett Adams现年17岁，面临近30年的牢狱之灾，他试图找出自己命运背后的原因。在母亲和阿姨们的支持下，亚当斯通过祈祷和鼓励信把他从绝望的边缘带了回来，亚当斯开始痴迷于我们的法律体系中所有被破坏的荣耀。在研究了他获得有效律师的宪法权利如何遭到侵犯后，他向威斯康星州无罪项目寻求帮助，该组织为被错误定罪的人开脱，并在入狱近十年后获释。
但这段旅程远未结束。亚当斯吸取了他在狱中所学到的教训，并努力读完了法学院，目的是帮助那些像他一样，曾在我们的法律体系最糟糕的时候遇到过的人。在获得法律学位后，他参与了纽约无罪项目，成为该非营利组织聘请的第一位外籍律师。在无罪项目的第一个案件中，他在十年前判他有罪并获胜的同一个法庭上进行了辩论。
在这篇关于希望和完整救赎的启发性故事中，亚当斯利用自己的生活和他的客户的案例，展示了用来定罪有色人种年轻人的种族主义策略，以及被释放后的Exoneries所面临的独特挑战，以及在我们的法庭上缺乏平等代表性不仅是同理心的失败，也是我们揭示真相的集体能力的失败。《救赎正义》是一部关于我国法律体系的局限性和可能性的令人难忘的第一手著作。
Redeeming Justice: From Defendant to Defender, My Fight for Equity on Both Sides of a Broken System
“A moving and beautifully crafted memoir.”—SCOTT TUROW
“A daring act of justified defiance.”—SHAKA SENGHOR
“Nothing less than heroic.”—JOHN GRISHAM
He was seventeen when an all-white jury sentenced him to prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Now a pioneering lawyer, he recalls the journey that led to his exoneration—and inspired him to devote his life to fighting the many injustices in our legal system.
Seventeen years old and facing nearly thirty years behind bars, Jarrett Adams sought to figure out the why behind his fate. Sustained by his mother and aunts who brought him back from the edge of despair through letters of prayer and encouragement, Adams became obsessed with our legal system in all its damaged glory. After studying how his constitutional rights to effective counsel had been violated, he solicited the help of the Wisconsin Innocence Project, an organization that exonerates the wrongfully convicted, and won his release after nearly ten years in prison.
But the journey was far from over. Adams took the lessons he learned through his incarceration and worked his way through law school with the goal of helping those who, like himself, had faced our legal system at its worst. After earning his law degree, he worked with the New York Innocence Project, becoming the first exoneree ever hired by the nonprofit as a lawyer. In his first case with the Innocence Project, he argued before the same court that had convicted him a decade earlier—and won.
In this illuminating story of hope and full-circle redemption, Adams draws on his life and the cases of his clients to show the racist tactics used to convict young men of color, the unique challenges facing exonerees once released, and how the lack of equal representation in our courts is a failure not only of empathy but of our collective ability to uncover the truth. Redeeming Justice is an unforgettable firsthand account of the limits—and possibilities—of our country’s system of law.

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