A review by driedfrogpills
The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South by Radley Balko, Tucker Carrington
5.0
This book makes me so angry about the state of our legal system and just underscores the need for accountability. I'm also now second-guessing any time I trusted an expert witness to provide factual information in court cases. It boggles my mind how this could continue for so long, and how even when challenged people still did their best to keep the corrupt in power. I kept expecting Haynes and West to be operating in the 1950s or '60s and no, no they've been abusing the system for as long as I've been alive and I'm in my 30s.
I found the book to be a hard, devastating read content-wise and an easy read language-wise, although at times Balko gets lost in some of the details or wanders off on a tangent. I appreciated the tangents, though, and thought they helped me to better see the larger picture of how deep the corruption in our legal system, and in Mississippi in particular, runs.
I found the book to be a hard, devastating read content-wise and an easy read language-wise, although at times Balko gets lost in some of the details or wanders off on a tangent. I appreciated the tangents, though, and thought they helped me to better see the larger picture of how deep the corruption in our legal system, and in Mississippi in particular, runs.