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Killing Time An 18-Year Odyssey from Death Row to Freedom

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ISBN-10: 1602399743

ISBN-13: 9781602399747

Edition: 2010

Authors: John Hollway, Ronald M. Gauthier

List price: $22.95
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In 1984, John Thompson was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of a prominent white man in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was sent to Angola Prison and confined to his cell for twenty-three hours a day. However, Thompson adamantly proclaimed his innocence and just needed lawyers who believed that his trial had been mishandled and would step up to the plate against the powerful DA’s office. But who would fight for Thompson’s innocence when he didn’t have an alibi for the night of the murder and there were two key witnesses to confirm his guilt? Killing Time is about the eighteen-year quest for Thompson’s freedom from a wrongful murder conviction. After Philadelphia lawyers…    
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Book details

List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/18/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 496
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 6.50" tall
Weight: 1.342

John Hollway is an attorney and writer who has worked both in a federal prosecutor's office and as a defense attorney in state and federal courts.

Ronald M. Gauthier is a library branch manager in Gwinnett Country, Georgia, and once served as an adult literacy instructor for the Louisiana prison system and a social services counselor. He is the author of Hard Time on the Bayou , a prison novel based on his experiences working in corrections.

To the Reader
Why Did He Have To Shoot Me?
Carjacking
Finding a killer
Arrested
Positive ID
Good Cop, Bad Cop
Robbery Trial
Forty-Nine Years
Big Daddy Red
Condemned
Pay It Forward
Philadelphia Lawyers
Truth Is What the Jury Says It Is
Nick Trenticosta
Guilt or Innocence
Meeting at the Farm
The Kitchen Sink
Isolation
Fighting City Hall
Tugging At Threads
Life in Angola
Powerless
Lemmon v. Connick
Dead for Good
Reward
Making a Living
The Chaplain
Petition Denied
5th Circuit Appeal
Scrambling
Out of Appeals
The Vault
Graduation
The Blood Test
Jay Lagarde
Conspiracy
Connick's Response
Grand Jury Investigation
A New Trial?
The Illusion of Hope
Movement
The Dailies
Back at Opp
No New Trial
Visual Aids
Wishes Granted
Aggravated Assault and Battery
Plea Bargain
Kevin Freeman
Retrial
The Verdict
Release
Epilogue