6/26/2023 0 Comments Nate blakeslee booksBut the story is much bigger than the tale of just one bust. Anthony Lukas prize for excellence in nonfiction, Tulia is the story of this town, the bust, the trials, and the heroic legal battle that ultimately led to the reversal of the convictions. Despite the flimsiness of the evidence against them, virtually all of the defendants were convicted and given sentences as high as ninety-nine years. At trial, the prosecution relied almost solely on the uncorroborated, and contradictory, testimony of one police officer. In the summer of 1999, in the tiny west Texas town of Tulia, thirty-nine people, almost all of them black, were arrested and charged with dealing powdered cocaine. a modern day To Kill a Mockingbird - or would, that is, if the novel were a true story and Atticus had won” ( New York Times Book Review) This true story of race and injustice in a small west Texas town “resembles.
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