Donald S. Connery - - Guilty Until Proven Innocent

Donald S. Connery - - Guilty Until Proven Innocent
 

When eighteen-year-old Peter Reilly came home one night in September 1973, he found his mother, Barbara Gibbons, lying in a pool of blood.  Within minutes, he was detained.  Within hours, state police had extracted a false confession from a teenager in shock, who'd been cut off from family, friends, and legal counsel.  Within days, Peter was indicted as his mother's murderer.

The most controversial criminal case in Connecticut's history shocked a nation as Peter was found guilty without any motive, physical evidence, or eyewitnesses linking him to the killing.  When Peter was sentenced to six to sixteen years in the state's maximum-security prison, his plight galvanized friends, neighbors, and celebrities in a stuggle, led by playwrihgt Arthu Miller, to overturn the wrongful conviction.

In Guilty Until PRoven Innocent, veteran reporter Donald S. Connery tells the shattering story of Peter Reilly's ordeal.  In a new afterword, he speaks of the impact of the case on the justice system in the new era of DNA exonerations and legal reforms protecting the rights of the wrongly accused.

439 pages of intrigue to keep you reading page after page.

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