Life Without Jurisdiction

Life Without Jurisdiction shows what happens before someone ever walks through the prison door.

The Alabama Solution showed what happens inside Alabama's prisons.

This is what happens before someone ever walks through the door.

It may be the more disturbing story.

Murray Lawrence Jr. is serving life without parole for a murder he did not commit.

There was no physical evidence connecting him to the crime. No DNA. No weapon. No witness who ever placed him there. What the State had instead was a man who confessed to the killing, changed his story only after investigators offered him a way out, and named Murray in the version that saved him.

This book lays out that record in full. The coercion. The suppressed evidence. The case for Murray's innocence that the courts have never had to answer.

There is also a legal question still open. This book follows it all the way to its conclusion.

The record does not require belief.

It requires attention.