Legal Research

Professor Richard Leo's new book, The Wrong Guys: Murder, False Confessions, and the Norfolk Four, will be released on November 3, 2008.  Co-authored with Tom Wells, the book traces the prosecution of four innocent men for a murder committed in 1997.  Although the real perpetrator was identified and convicted, three of the four innocent men remain imprisoned today.  The book's publisher, The New Press, describes the book as "an urgent call for justice and a convincing case for reform in the criminal justice system. . . . writer Tom Wells and law professor Richard Leo masterfully interweave a narrative covering the unfolding of the case with an exploration of topics ranging from coercive interrogation, police perjury (?testilying?), and prosecutorial politics to the role of the death penalty in criminal law."  You can find a copy of The Wrong Guys in the Zief collection.