George Whitmore Jr. from Wildwood, NJ, in 1964 during his arrest and 22 hour interrogation for a mugging confessed to the brutal murders of two young New York Girls, Janis Wylie and Emily Hoffert; called "The Career Girl Murders". Although Whitmores arrest occurred before the Supreme Court ruling on the Miranda case (1966), there was growing concern about a defendantÌs right to an attorney and protection from making self-incriminating statements. When this was discovered, the prosecutor was reported as saying: "Call it what you want -- brain-washing, hypnosis, fright. They made him give an untrue confession. In this powerful book Fred Shapiro recreates the circumstances of the Whitmore case, he pays particular attention to those points ofwhich directly influenced the historic Miranda decision. This story of stands as a horrifying illumination of the effects of poverty, racial biotry, and police dehumanization of a black man. Gray cloth boards and spine. DW not price clipped, white black illustration. Mild spotty soil, upper spine end bumped, two closed tears. In protective brodart mylar. Clean text, tightly bound. 8 vo, 230 pages

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