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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Humes, Edward, author.     Subjects     Parks, Jo Ann.     Women prisoners -- California.     Female offenders -- California.     Mothers -- California.     Malicious accusation -- California.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Humes, Edward, author.       by title:      Burned : a story of ...         MARC Display

Burned : a story of murder and the crime that wasn't / Edward Humes. by Humes, Edward, author. [New York] : Dutton, [2019] Subjects Parks, Jo Ann.   Women prisoners -- California.   Female offenders -- California.   Mothers -- California.   Malicious accusation -- California. ISBN:  9781524742133 (hardcover) : 1524742139 (hardcover) : Description:  307 pages : illustration ; 24 cm Requests:  0 Summary:  "More than a gripping detective story, Burned is a shocking tale that upends the almost universal confidence we have in flawed forensics -- the "CSI" so long celebrated in fiction and film-- that has put thousands in prison as our justice system chose to embrace junk science over protecting the innocent. On an April night in 1989, three small children perished in a Los Angeles apartment fire. Their young mother, Jo Ann Parks, escaped unharmed, the sole survivor and only eyewitness. Though they at first believed the fire had been a tragic accident, forensic fire investigators soon uncovered evidence that Parks had sabotaged wiring, set several fires herself, and even barricaded her four-year-old son inside a closet to make sure he could not escape. Parks soon was pronounced one of the most monstrous killers in Los Angeles history, motivated by a desire to be rid of parental responsibilities and a greedy eagerness to cash in by suing her landlords. Though insisting she did nothing wrong, Jo Ann Parks was tried, convicted and sentenced to life in prison without parole on the power of forensic fire science that convincingly proved her guilt. But more than a quarter century later, there has been a revolution in the science of fire. Much of what was thought to be gospel in 1989 has been revealed to be dead wrong today, little more than myth and guesswork disguised as science. Now a young lawyer with the California Innocence Project is challenging the conviction and the so-called "science" behind it, claiming that false assumptions, tunnel vision and outright bias not only led to life in prison for an innocent mother, but convicted her of a crime that never actually happened"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 364.1523 Hu Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kalihi-Palama Public Library Adult Nonfiction 364.1523 Hu Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kealakekua Public Library Adult Nonfiction 364.1523 Hu Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Nonfiction 364.1523 Hu Checked In Add Copy to MyList Nanakuli Public Library Adult Nonfiction 364.1523 Hu Checked In Add Copy to MyList Waianae Public Library Adult Nonfiction 364.1523 Hu Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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