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Describes the ordeal of a Phoenix, Arizona housewife who was arrested, tried and convicted, and jailed for a double murder of which she was innocent, and finally freed only after being acquited at her third trial.
First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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