{"product_id":"rush-to-freedom-9781499614916","title":"Rush to Freedom","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Hal Hayes\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Con Artists, Hoaxes \u0026amp; Deceptions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2009, two men who'd been incarcerated for twelve years were released from prison. Exonerated for the murder they'd been convicted of in 1997, they were paid over two million dollars in compensation from the state of Texas, and one of them was even named Texan of the Year by \u003ci\u003eThe Dallas Morning News\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSome would see this as justice finally getting it right. In actuality, this is a shocking twist on how crime pays.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBut if they were guilty, how did their conviction get overturned? True crime book \u003ci\u003eRush to Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e sets the record straight once and for all. Reviewing the original court case as well as the initial police reports, a shaky confession, and interviews, author Hal Hayes shows how the plan by Claude Simmons's family to shift the blame for the murder to another suspect succeeded. Even more unsettling, Hayes unearths potentially damning evidence of how the Dallas District Attorney's office was so eager for the positive press attached to exonerations that obvious issues with Alonzo Hardy's belated confession to the murder were staunchly overlooked.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRush to Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e is a riveting exposé on how the system that initially got it right was then used to get it wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Createspace Independent Publishing Platform","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45503112872087,"sku":"9781499614916","price":799.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781499614916.webp?v=1767161972","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/rush-to-freedom-9781499614916","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}