Illusion of Justice: Inside Making a Murderer and America's Broken System

Illusion of Justice: Inside Making a Murderer and America's Broken System

by Jerome F. Buting
Illusion of Justice: Inside Making a Murderer and America's Broken System

Illusion of Justice: Inside Making a Murderer and America's Broken System

by Jerome F. Buting

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“A compelling portrait of the mechanisms of building a murder defense. A fantastic look behind the scenes of the U.S. justice system.” —Kirkus Reviews

Over his career, Jerome F. Buting has spent hundreds of hours in courtrooms representing defendants in criminal trials. When he agreed to join Dean Strang as co-counsel for the defense in Steven A. Avery vs. State of Wisconsin, he knew a tough fight lay ahead. But, as he reveals in Illusion of Justice, no-one could have predicted just how twisted that fight would be—or that it would become the center of the documentary Making a Murderer, which made Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey household names.

Buting’s powerful, riveting boots-on-the-ground narrative of Avery’s and Dassey’s cases becomes a springboard to examine the shaky integrity of law enforcement and justice in the United States, which Buting has witnessed firsthand for more than thirty-five years. From his early career as a public defender to his success overturning wrongful convictions working with the Innocence Project, his story provides an insider view into the high-stakes arena of criminal defense law; the difficulties of forensic science; and a horrifying reality of biased interrogations, coerced or false confessions, faulty eyewitness testimony, official misconduct, and more.

Combining narrative reportage with critical commentary and personal reflection, Buting explores his professional and personal motivations, career-defining cases, and what must happen if our broken system is to be saved. Illusion of Justice is a tour-de-force from a relentless and eloquent advocate for justice who is determined, in the face of overwhelming odds, to make America’s judicial system work as it is designed to do.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780062569332
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 11/21/2023
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 343
Sales rank: 593,673
Lexile: 1200L (what's this?)
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

About The Author

Jerome F. Buting is a shareholder in the Brookfield, Wisconsin, law firm of Buting, Williams & Stilling, S.C. He received his undergraduate degree in forensic studies from Indiana University and his law degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was board director of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers,  past president of the Wisconsin Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and chair of the Wisconsin State Bar Criminal Law Section. He lectures worldwide and is frequently sought for his legal expertise. He is also the recipient of the Fierce Advocate Award from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the James Joyce Award from University College Dublin, and the Trinity College Dublin Praeses Elit Award.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Opening Statement 1

Part I A Pixel Rarely Makes the Picture 13

Part II Presumed Guilty 69

Part III Just a Lawyer 93

Part IV One Step Forward, Two Steps Back 123

Part V Swimming Upstream 143

Part V Déjà Vu 199

Part VII Caught in a Five-Hundred-Year Rain 257

Part VIII Thinking Out Loud 297

Closing Statement 321

Acknowledgments 337

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