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Centinela Park in Inglewood, CA Google Map

The children lived where the red line is drawn. There were houses on the north side of the street until the 50s and 60s. Note the plunge upper right and the tennis courts at bottom. Veteran’s Memorial Building (built in 1934) is far left at the corner of Warren Lane and Centinela Ave. Florence used […]

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Hot New Release (in two catagories?)

Still not sure what it means but Pandora is playing perfect music. The numbers shift constantly. Product Details File Size: 3035 KB Print Length: 289 pages Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc. Language: English ASIN: B00OEONGK4 Text-to-Speech: Enabled X-Ray: Not Enabled Lending: Enabled Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #40,195 Paid in Kindle Store […]

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Hot New Release!

Not sure what this is but it is hopefully better than sinking.

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The Picture on the Cover of Colder Case

Is from the Baldwin Hills looking east at downtown Los Angeles in the background. There was some temptation to sharpen the image in the distance but it seemed a good metaphor to have things clearer the closer they are and fuzzy in the distance. The shadowy crime scene terrain is meant to depict the darkness […]

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Introduction

Convicting the innocent is nothing new. In 1932, Edwin M. Borchard wrote Convicting the Innocent: Sixty-Five Actual Errors of Criminal Justice. Borchard was not a defense attorney and in the introduction he reveals he was not particularly interested in criminal law, but as a law professor at Yale University, he could not ignore injustice. He […]