by Kyle Swenson
sentence extended
sentencing of
testimony of
trial of
Vernon’s retraction of testimony against
Vernon’s testimony against
Jackson, Frank
Jackson, Rissa
Jackson, Schoolboy
Jamelle
James, LeBron
Johnson, Larry
Johnson, Lyndon
Jones, Ronald
Jordan, Charles
Justice Department
Kent State University
Kerner Commission
King, Arthur Lee “Railroad”
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
King, Willie Joe “Skip”
Klunder, Bruce
Knapp, Whitman
Knapp Commission
Kucinich, Dennis
Kunstler, William
Kusmer, Kenneth L.
L.A. Times
Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA)
Leisman, Harry
Lincoln, Abraham
Lindsay, John V.
Locher, Ralph
Lockett, Sandra
Loeb, Robert
Loehmann, Timothy
Loper, Charles
Lucasville (Southern Ohio Correctional Facility; SOCF)
Lucasville 14
Malcolm X
Mandryk, John
Mann, Earl
Marine Corps, U.S.
Marino, Carmen
Martin, Trayvon
Mason, Bill
Massey, Douglas
Mathay, Charles
Maxwell Cut-Rate
McCann, Charles
McCarthy, Daniel
McFaul, Gerald
McGinty, Tim
McGrath, Mary
McGrath, Michael
McMonagle, Richard
Meese, Edwin, III
Merida, Sierra
Midwest
Milano, Jerry
Mitchell, John
Moore, Leonard N.
Muhlhan, Frank
NAACP
National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence
National Guard
National Registry of Exonerations
National Rifle Association
Native Americans
NBC Nightly News
Neufeld, Peter
New York City Police Department (NYPD)
New York Times
Nixon, Richard
Norris, Robert J.
O’Connor, Maureen
O’Connor, Sandra Day
O’Donnell, John P.
Ohio Innocence Project (OIP)
Rickey Jackson and
Ohio State Penitentiary
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act
Paskvan, Joseph
Perk, Ralph
Petro, Jim
Plain Dealer
Porter, Philip Wiley
police
in Cleveland
in New York
poverty
Pride, Inc.
prosecutors
Radelet, Michael
Radenmaker, Gerald
Reagan, Ronald
recession of 2008
Reece, Gary
Rehnquist, William
Rice, Tamir
riots
in Cleveland
Roberts, Michael D.
Robinson, Anna
Robinson, Robert
Rogers, Don
Rogers, Earl
Roosevelt, Franklin
Ross, Rick
Rubin, Jerry
Russell, Timothy
Schaefer, Frank
Scheck, Barry
Serowik, Joseph
Serpico, Frank
Shaughnessy, Thomas
Sheppard, Sam
Shower Posse
Siller, Tom
Simpson, O.J.
Singleton, Anthony
Smith, Jason
Smith, Karen
social contract
Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, see Lucasville
Soviet Union
Sowell, Anthony
Staimpel, John
Stanford Law Review
Stern, Howard
Stoiker, Frank
Stokes, Carl
Stokes, Louis
Stuntz, William J.
Supreme Court, U.S.
death penalty and
Sweeney, James
Tanksley, Ivan
Teaford, Jon C.
Terpay, Eugene
Thoreau, Henry David
Time
Tolliver, Stanley E.
Trade School News
Turner, Frederick Jackson
Turner, Ronald
Twain, Mark
United Freedom Movement
Verdi, Mark
Vernon, Darlene
Vernon, Ed
arrest and incarceration of
at City Mission
Cleveland Scene article and
cocaine addiction of
at Emmanuel Christian
hypertension of
police files and
stroke suffered by
testimony of
testimony retracted
Wiley Bridgeman’s meeting of
Wiley Bridgeman’s retrial and
Wagner, Richard R.
War Crimes Tribunal
Warren, Earl
Weschler, Lawrence
West, Kanye
White, Mike
White Art (Arthur Feckner)
Whitman, James Q.
Williams, Brian
Williams, Malissa
Williams, Marion H.
Wittick, Mr.
Wood, Carrie
Wounded Knee
wrongful convictions
exonerations
Yee, Steven Wayne
Young Boys Inc.
Zimmer, Wally
Zingle, Sam
About the Author
KYLE SWENSON is a reporter for The Washington Post. A finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists, he is also the recipient of the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award for Feature Reporting. His work has appeared in The Village Voice and The New Republic, and is featured frequently on Longreads, including “Good Kids, Bad City,” the feature that became the basis for this book. A graduate of Kenyon College, he currently lives in Washington, D.C. You can sign up for email updates here.
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Epigraphs
Author’s Note
Prologue: Busted Pavement
PART I: DOWN THE WAY
1 A Spark Plus a Spark Plus a Spark
2 That Particular Day
3 Black and Blue
4 X-Ray Eyes
5 We Yet Exist
PART II: FLAT TIME
6 Mens Rea
7 Alhamdulillah
8 The Males Are from the Neighborhood
9 What the Boy Saw
PART III: NOT YOUR TOWN ANYMORE
10 Super Flop
11 Hypertension
12 We Can Fix This
13 39 Years, 3 Months, 6 Days
14 Not Your Town Anymore
Epilogue: Comeback
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
About the Author
Copyright
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Subjects: LCSH: Ajamu, Kwame—Trials, litigation, etc.|Jackson, Ricky, 1957—Trials, litigation, etc.|Bridgeman, Wiley—Trials, litigation, etc.|Trials (Murder)—Ohio—Cleveland.|Judicial error—Ohio.
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