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050 00 $aKF224.M357$bM35 1999
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100 1 $aMalcolm, Janet.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79098078
245 14 $aThe crime of Sheila McGough /$cby Janet Malcolm.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bA.A. Knopf,$c1999.
300 $a161 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"In the winter of 1996, Janet Malcolm received a letter from a stranger - a disbarred lawyer named Sheila McGough, who had recently been released from prison, and who wrote that she had been convicted of crimes she had not committed. Malcolm decided to look into the case, and this book - a dazzling work of journalism as well as a searching meditation on character, on the law, and on the incompatibility of narrative with truth - is the product of her growing belief that a miscarriage of justice had taken place." "Sheila McGough was prosecuted and convicted because the government (and then the jury) interpreted her zealous representation of a con-man client named Bob Bailes as collaboration in his fraud. Malcolm's close readings of court records and her interviews with lawyers and businessmen connected with the case give a picture of American law and American cupidity that is startling in its pitiless specificity. And her portrait of Sheila McGough - "a woman of almost preternatural honesty and decency," as well as maddening literal-mindedness and discursiveness - brings an unconventional new heroine into vivid being."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aMcGough, Sheila$xTrials, litigation, etc.
650 0 $aTrials (Fraud)$zVirginia$zAlexandria.
650 0 $aCriminal justice, Administration of.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85034049
776 08 $iOnline version:$aMalcolm, Janet.$tCrime of Sheila McGough.$b1st ed.$dNew York : A.A. Knopf, 1999$w(OCoLC)607130739
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random058/98048635.html
856 41 $3Sample text$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random042/98048635.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random046/98048635.html
852 00 $boff,glx$hKF224.M357$iM35 1999