• Presumption of Guilt

  • Innocent Prisoners Project
  • By: Marti Green
  • Narrated by: Tanya Eby
  • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (416 ratings)

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Presumption of Guilt

By: Marti Green
Narrated by: Tanya Eby
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Publisher's summary

Twelve years ago, teenager Molly Singer was tried and convicted for murdering her parents. She was sentenced to two consecutive life terms in prison, torn away from her newborn daughter, and forsaken by those closest to her. But now, a series of anonymous letters proclaim her innocence - and point a finger at a deadly conspiracy.

Attorney Dani Trumball specializes in defending the wrongfully imprisoned at the Help Innocent Prisoners Project. But taking Molly's case means taking on a hard-hearted justice system that doesn't like do-overs... and a merciless killer who will do anything to keep a secret history of dirty deals buried. Only the truth will set Molly free and reunite her broken family. And only Dani has any chance of finding it in a showdown that will push her legal talents - and her survival skills - to the very edge.

©2014 Marti Green (P)2014 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.

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Excellent legal thriller!

Presumption of Guilt is Book 2 in the 4 novel Innocent Prisoners Project series by Marti Green. The story in fascinating and the suspense is intense. A 17 year old girl is wrongfully convicted of murdering her parents and has spent 12 years in prison. This novel clearly shows how our criminal justice system can be manipulated by forced false confections, overzealous DA's, and crooked judges.

Tanya Eby does her usual stellar job of narration. I found that narration was best at 1.5x recorded speed.

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3.5 Entertaining But A Little Far Fetched

This book starts out, in the first few pages, fairly promisingly---a young girl is accused and convicted of killing her parents, although she is innocent. A group of lawyers involved in an Innocence Project-like practice take on her case.

However, the book then takes a turn when the true circumstances of her parents' deaths start to unfold. People start getting killed like flies, in a way that is almost funny in its overkill. The truth involves just about everyone you could possibly imagine that is in power in the fictional Hudson county. The ending is never really in doubt, but first we go through lots of court action repeating plot points.

There are also a few times that the book contradicts itself. The most noticeable to me was a newspaper article quoted early in the book saying the jury in the original case took only four hours to deliver a verdict. Later, it becomes a major plot point that the jury took five days to deliver a verdict. That kind of things makes me wonder about the editing here.

I think the author was very well meaning. She wanted to illustrate several points, most especially that false confessions occur more often than you would think.

However, the first book was better than this one. But the book was still entertaining and I will continue to the next book.

Tanya Eby was very good with the delivery of the story

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Predictable

Like some other readers I found the suspense to be somewhat lacking in this book. It was hard to stay with it until the end, but in the final chapters there was a slight twist that added some more interest.

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Another great story!

Very much enjoyed this novel, really felt for Molly. Nice amount of twists and turns throughout the book. Only one negative, I was getting a bit tired and annoyed at having to hear about Dani's son and his impairment, it was definitely over stated and referred to too many times in the first half of this story and not pertinent to the novel. I'm hoping it's barely mentioned in the next book.

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Great listen

Good from start to finish! Excellent example you dont have to have
sex , and filthy language to have a really good book. Matter of fact it makes it better! Thanks!

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Improved narration at 1.5 speed

I purchased Presumption of Guilt for $1.99. It was predictable yet entertaining enough at that price. I wouldn't pay more.

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Decidedly Average

I have to say there was nothing compelling about this book. If I wasn't obsesive compulsive about finishing the book, i don't know that I would have. There was nothing inherently wrong with the story but there was nothing compelling either. It was quickly determined who committed the crime and the outcome was assured from the beginning. Because of this, there was not any real tension to compel the story forward.

Full disclosure, I am an attorney but do not practice in a court room. I will usually find the courtroom scenes interesting and compelling but for some reason, there was not any tension there either. I can't necessarily say what the issue is, but I didn't feel the nervousness that the author attempted to portray. This was one I could easily put down, walk away from and not be compelled to have to find out what happened next.

Still if one is a fan of false confession courtroom drama, I can see how they would like it much more. It just wasn't very gripping for me.

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good

I have to take care of my pets and I will assume that they will be able to find a suitable home

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Lacking suspense

The story was interesting enough but didn’t have much suspense to keep the reader engaged.

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educational with a wonder story line

I had no idea of the process of freeing, an
innocent person. I truly think our justice system is over stressed, with not enough time to establish facts. .
in my ignorance of the system I probably miss
spoke. but this is a book of depth . plus introducing me to William's syndrome.

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