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Author: Randy Roberts ,
J.Gregory Garrison
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Imprint: University of Arkansas Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.515kg
ISBN: 9781557286000
ISBN 10: 1557286000
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 29 February 2000
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
A pile-driving and relentless narrative that far transcends the usual true crime story. . . . What is told here . . . is nothing short of a heart-breaking American tragedy. --Gerald Early, author of Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prize-fighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture
A pile-driving and relentless narrative that far transcends the usual true crime story. . . . What is told here . . . is nothing short of a heart-breaking American tragedy. Gerald Early, author of Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prize-fighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture
The Indianapolis special prosecutor who put heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson in prison for rape offers a trial recap full of interesting inside details. Aided by Roberts (History/Purdue; Jack Dempsey, 1974), Garrison, in the first quarter of the book, reconstructs the tangled early investigation of Tyson's July 1991 date rape of Desiree Washington, a teenage contestant in the Miss Black America pageant. Garrison's narrative gains momentum as he himself joins the case, concluding in his own mind that the intention of Desiree (as she's called throughout the book) in her late-night visit to Tyson's hotel room was innocent, not gold-digging. Energized for the fight, Garrison grills Tyson's former associate Jose Torres, who says a master boxer like Tyson can lie with conviction, and questions fellow prosecutors about Tyson's lawyer, Vincent Fuller, who successfully defended would-be presidential assassin John Hinckley. He offers much insight on trial strategy, including facing prospective jurors, eliciting powerful testimony from Washington, and cross-examining the confident Tyson, whose lawyers took the awkward tack of arguing that the defendant was so crude any woman would have known what she was getting into. Tyson got six years, and his appeals have so far failed. Garrison doesn't shy away from the racial overtones of the case, noting the enclave mentality of some black Tyson defenders, but he could have done more to question jurors about the case and to discuss Washington's civil litigation against Tyson. If a bit self-serving and understandably incomplete, a solid and readable account of a controversial case. (Kirkus Reviews)
Author Information
J. Gregory Garrison is a partner in the Indianapolis law firm of Garrison & Kiefer and has not lost a jury trial in twenty years.
