Events & Reunions

Sponsored by:

Tufts Alumni San Francisco

Location:
Samovar Tea Lounge
498 Sanchez Street, San Francisco | See Map

When: Sunday, April 11, 2010, 10:30 am (iCal)

Description

The San Francisco Tufts Alliance invites you to join our Book Club. Our next book is Actual Innocence: When Justice Goes Wrong and How to Make it Right by Barry Scheck, Peter Neufeld, and Jim Dwyer. The book's first sentence sets the stage: "Trapped in the wilderness of wrong places, Inmate 85A6097 howled, body and soul." The Innocence Project is a national litigation and public policy organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted people through DNA testing and reforming the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice. To date, 250 people have been exonerated through DNA testing in the United States. http://www.innocenceproject.org/

Here are the stories of innocent men and women – and the system that put them away under the guise of justice. Actual Innocence sheds light on "a system that tolerates lying prosecutors, slumbering defense attorneys and sloppy investigators" (Salt Lake Tribune), revealing the shocking flaws that can derail the legal process and the ways that DNA testing has often shattered so-called solid evidence that condemned American citizens to death.

"A troubling portrayal of the criminal justice system from within its well-guarded walls." – New York Times
"Required reading for anyone who believes that only the guilty are put to death....A catalog of appalling miscarriages of justice." – Washington Post
"[A] chilling look at judicial corruption and incompetence." – New York Daily News
"Should be required reading for...our justice system." – Philadelphia Inquirer

Whether you've already read this moving book or it's new to you, we would love for you to join our conversation. Please register for this event and start reading! Also, please share your interest in this book club and ideas for future reads with Bobbie at bobbie.peyton@gmail.com

RSVP

Please email SFTA steering committee member Bobbie Peyton, G07, at bobbie.peyton@gmail.com and include your name, school/class year, and names of any guests. You can also register on our Facebook group at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10409245273

Parking/directions:

Muni: It’s one block west of the J-Church stop on 18th Street.

BART: Get off at 16th Street/Mission Station in San Francisco. Walk west on 16th for five blocks, then south on Sanchez for two blocks.
Driving: There’s on-street parking throughout the Mission and Castro…if you can find an open space.

Cost

There is no charge for this event.

Contact

For more information about San Francisco events, contact regionalprograms@tufts.edu.