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Title: One-sided view of Kern County
Review: Humes hopes that we will accept this book as the final word on justice in Kern County, but it is not. A rebuttal has been posted on the District Attorney's Web page. The rebuttal, Humes writes, "failed to respond directly to most key issues raised in the book." (paperback, page 510)This is untrue, because the rebuttal actually addresses all of Humes' important points, and rebuts many errors. It is a shame that Humes avoids any further discussion. On the book's own Web page, with more than eighty links, there is no reference, and no link, to the rebuttal.I read this book hoping for scholarship, but it turned out to be issue advocacy, and pretty sloppy advocacy at that. Prosecutorial misconduct is a major issue, an issue that deserves a better book than this.
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