Bringing Ben Home by Barbara Bradley Hagerty

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/165191 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bringing Ben Home Author: Barbara Bradley Hagerty Narrator: Barbara Bradley Hagerty Format: mp3 Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins Release date: 08-06-24 Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 20 ratings Genres: Public Policy Publisher's Summary: In 1989, Ben Spencer, a twenty-two-year-old Black man from Dallas, was convicted of murdering white businessman Jeffrey Young—a crime he didn’t commit. From the day of his arrest, Spencer insisted that it was “an awful mistake.” The Texas legal system didn’t see it that way. It allowed shoddy police work, paid witnesses, and prosecutorial misconduct to convict Spencer of murder, and it ignored later efforts to correct this error. The state’s bureaucratic intransigence caused Spencer to spend more than half his life in prison.