Jerry Buting Presents ILLUSION OF JUSTICE w/ Robert Kolker
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Please join us at WORD Jersey City for a reading, discussion, and Q&A with one of the minds being Making of a Murder, Jerome Buting, to celebrate his new book THE ILLUSION OF JUSTICE. Buting will be joined in conversation by Robert Kolker of Bloomberg News.
The TV documentary phenomenon Making of a Murder, which debuted on Netflix in December 2015, explores the story of Steven Avery, a man from Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, who served 18 years in prison for the wrongful conviction of sexual assault and attempted murder of Penny Beerntsen, before being fully exonerated in 2003 by DNA evidence. In 2005, Avery was arrested on charges of murdering Teresa Halbach, a local photographer, and convicted in 2007. Jerome F. Buting, who has served as a high-profile criminal defense attorney for 35 years, defended Avery in the murder trial. Despite his best efforts, and those of co-counsel Dean Strang, Avery was found guilty of first-degree intentional homicide and sentenced to life in prison in March 2007.
Not since The Thin Blue Line has there been a true crime documentary as engrossing and provocative as Making a Murderer; Steven’s case cuts across demographic lines, and has galvanized as much debate about the integrity of our criminal justice system as it has about whether Steven Avery is guilty or innocent. In ILLUSION OF JUSTICE: Inside Making a Murderer and America’s Broken System (Harper, 2/28/2017), Buting provides an insider’s riveting narrative of the Avery case and that of his nephew, Brendan Dassey—and what the cameras did not capture—interwoven with the story of his own development as a criminal defense lawyer; as he reflects on his professional motivations and discusses other career-defining cases (including another, equally shocking wrongful conviction that he worked on with The Innocence Project), he provides commentary on the integrity of our law enforcement and legal systems. Together, his experiences shape a relevant analysis of the deeply flawed judicial system in which he practices.
Robert Kolker is the New York Times bestselling author of Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery, a narrative-nonfiction chronicle of unsolved murder that was named one of the New York Times’ 100 Notable Books and one of Publisher's Weekly’s Top Ten Books of the year. An award-winning investigative journalist, he currently is a Projects & Investigations reporter for Bloomberg News.
Jerome F. Buting is a shareholder in the Brookfield, Wisconsin law firm of Buting, Williams & Stilling, S.C. He received his undergraduate degree in Forensic Studies from Indiana University and his law degree from the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill. He is a past board director of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, a past president of the Wisconsin Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and chair of the Wisconsin State Bar Criminal Law Section from 2005 to 2007. His present private practice is entirely criminal defense, both trials and appeals. He has defended the citizen accused in many serious high profile trial cases, including the Steven Avery case, and he obtained the reversal of convictions in State of Wisconsin v. Ted Oswald and State of Wisconsin v. Ralph Armstrong (reversing a 25 year old murder conviction). He lectures worldwide and is frequently sought after for his knowledge in the use of expert witnesses and DNA evidence. He is also the 2016 recipient of the Fierce Advocate Award from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
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