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Conviction Machine

By: Sidney Powell, Harvey A. Silverglate, Adriana Hunter - translator
Narrated by: Tanya Eby
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In 2009, Harvey A. Silverglate, a prominent criminal defense and civil liberties lawyer, published his landmark critique of the federal criminal-justice system, Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent. In 2014, Sidney Powell, a former federal prosecutor in three districts under nine United States attorneys from both political parties and who has been lead counsel in 500 federal appeals, published her landmark indictment of the system, Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice, after she witnessed appalling abuses by prosecutors - more than a decade after she entered private practice. Now these two leading authorities combine their knowledge and experience to describe the problems within the Department of Justice and in the federal courts - and to offer solutions.

Together, Powell and Silverglate shine a light on the defects of the system: overzealous prosecutors, perjury traps, negligent judges, perverse limits on self-defense, vague and overabundant criminal statutes, insufficient requirements for criminal intent, and no accountability for prosecutors. Most important, they provide a much-needed blueprint for reforming the Department of Justice and the criminal-justice system, including actions an average citizen can take to help restore justice.

©2020 Harvey A. Silvergate and Sidney Powell (P)2020 Tantor
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Remarkable.

I really hope they don’t ban this book, please people read this, very informative. Excellent.

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WE The People Must Put a Stop to This

Our Press has grown week and culpable. Corruption and boundless greed from unfettered access to our children's future earnings blinds too many politicians/attorneys to their duty, Too little respect and courage to play the long purpose of creating a place where our children - all children - can and will honorably carry on.

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discouraging state of our legal system

The narrator sounds like Siri, makes it sound like a long commercial or a book being read by Alexa. The content was good but sad.

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A must read book for every citizen.

We must take action as citizens to neutralize the power that these criminal prosecutors are abusing. I as an innocent man went through 7 years of torture humiliation and lost my retirement my livelihood and everything including a multi-million dollar business. I was unaware this was so common this book opened my eyes and really is motivating me to embark on a mission towards advocacy for change. I was the largest in the country of a very fragmented industry and they wanted to make an example out of me having suppressed a complete official statutory provision and carve out that was explicit for my business that provides housing for people with substance use disorders. just unconscionable. this book is fantastic I got the audio version

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Every citizen must read!

A shocking expose' of the American courts. Also includes actions for citizens, judges, and the legislative branch in order to remedies injustices.

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Narrator doesn't do it justice.

Extremely well written, but the narrator reads it like a preschool teacher with a picture book.

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HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!

Harvey silverglate and Sidney Powell discuss the corruption of the fbi and prosecutors in simple enough to understand terms, that point out an obvious lack of accountability and very apparent corruption. I highly recommend.

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Excellent!

Loved all the real life examples in Conviction Machine. Great suggestions on how to help improve the criminal justice system in America.

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It’s broken

I’m knew this was happening. We all knew.
But we need to hear it. Discuss it.
Shout it from the rooftops.
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Reader’s performance was outstanding. Best I’ve ever heard.

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A must-read. Shocking and Compelling

The only shortcoming of this telling of the book is The narrator, who sounds almost like an AI generated voice much of the time. But the story overcomes that and compels the listener to stay with it to the end.

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