Laura Caldwell, JD

Professor/Scholar In Residence, School of Law and Alumna

Anatomy of Innocence: Testimonies of the Wrongfully Convicted

ISBN 1631490885
Liveright, March 2017

Synopsis

This nonfiction book tells the extraordinary stories of more than a dozen innocent men and women who were convicted of serious crimes and cast into the maw of a vast and deeply flawed American criminal justice system before eventually, miraculously, being exonerated.

Long Way Home: A Young Man Lost in the System and the Two Women Who Found Him

(ISBN 1439100233)
Simon and Schuster, 2010

Synopsis

This nonfiction book is about a murder trial in Chicago, where Caldwell and another attorney represented a young man who was in a Cook County holding cell for six years without a trial.

Other books by Laura Caldwell:

• The Dog Park
• Red Hot Lies
• Red Blooded Murder
• Red, White & Dead
• Claim of Innocence
• Question of Trust
• False Impressions
• Burning the Map
• A Clean Slate
• The Year of Living Famously
• Look Closely
• The Rome Affair
• The Good Liar
• The Night I Got Lucky