{"product_id":"9781595585004","title":"Let's Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice","description":"\u003cbr\u003ePaul Butler was an ambitious federal prosecutor, a Harvard Law grad who gave up his corporate law salary to fight the good fight—until one day he was arrested on the street and charged with a crime he didn’t commit. \u003ci\u003eThe Volokh Conspiracy\u003c\/i\u003e calls Butler’s account of his trial \"the most riveting first chapter I have ever read.\"\u003cp\u003eIn a book Harvard Law professor Charles Ogletree calls \"a must read,\" Butler looks at places where ordinary citizens meet the justice system—as jurors, witnesses, and in encounters with the police—and explores what \"doing the right thing\" means in a corrupt system.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince \u003ci\u003eLet’s Get Free\u003c\/i\u003e’s publication in spring 2009, Butler has become the go-to person for commentary on criminal justice and race relations: he appeared on ABC News, \u003ci\u003eGood Morning America\u003c\/i\u003e, and Fox News, published op-eds in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and other national papers, and is in demand to speak across the country. The paperback edition brings Butler’s groundbreaking and highly controversial arguments—jury nullification (voting \"not guilty\" in drug cases as a form of protest), just saying \"no\" when the police request your permission to search, and refusing to work inside the system as a snitch or a prosecutor—to a whole new audience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Press, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47047052493040,"sku":"9781595585004","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781595585004_p0.jpg?v=1769901742","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781595585004","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}