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Justin Brooks has spent his career freeing innocent people from prison With You Might Go to Prison Even Though Youre Innocent he offers upclose accounts of the cases he has fought embedding them within a larger landscape of innocence claims and robust research on what we know about the causes of wrongful convictions Putting listeners at the defense table this book forces us to consider how any of us might be swept up in the system whether we hired a bad lawyer bear a slight resemblance to someone else in the world or are not good with awkward silence The stories of Brookss cases and clients paint the picture of a broken justice system one where innocence is no protection from incarceration or even the death penalty Simultaneously relatable and disturbing You Might Go to Prison Even Though Youre Innocent is essential listening for anyone who wants to better understand how injustice is served by our system