Let's Get Free

Radical ideas for changing the justice system, rooted in the real-life experiences of those in overpoliced communities, from the acclaimed former federal prosecutor and author of Chokehold. &quote;Destined to make us all think in new ways about the concept of justice.&quote; Henry Louis Gates Jr., Harvard UniversityPaul Butler was an ambitious federal prosecutor, a Harvard Law grad who gave up his corporate law salary to fight the good fight until one day he was arrested on the street and charged with a crime he didn't commit. In a book Harvard Law professor Charles Ogletree calls &quote;a must read,&quote; Butler looks at places where ordinary citizens meet the justice system as jurors, witnesses, and in encounters with the police and explores what &quote;doing the right thing&quote; means in a corrupt system. With groundbreaking and highly controversial arguments including jury nullification (voting &quote;not guilty&quote; in drug cases as a form of protest), just saying &quote;no&quote; when the police request your permission to search, and refusing to work inside the system as a snitch or a prosecutor Let's Get Free is a smart and provocative critique that will change the way you think about crime and punishment in the United States. &quote;Eye-opening.&quote; Barbara Ehrenrich, The New York Times&quote;[A] masterpiece in the literature of American criminal justice.&quote; -Bookforum