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1. The jailhouse lawyer

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Duncan, Calvin
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"A searing and ultimately hopeful account of Calvin Duncan, 'the most extraordinary jailhouse lawyer of our time' (Sister Helen Prejean), and his thirty-year path through Angola after a wrongful murder conviction, his coming-of-age as a legal mind while imprisoned, and his continued advocacy for those on the inside Calvin Duncan was nineteen when he was incarcerated for a 1981 New Orleans murder he didn't commit. The victim of wildly incompetent public...