Michael Sirois (Bücher)

Michael Sirois Bücher

Michael Sirois schafft Erzählungen, die sich mit der Komplexität menschlicher Erfahrungen auseinandersetzen und Introspektion mit einer scharfen, dramatischen Sensibilität verbinden. Sein Werk zeichnet sich durch eine tiefe Auseinandersetzung mit Charakter und Thema aus und offenbart ein scharfes Verständnis für die eindringliche Kraft des Geschichtenerzählens. Sirois lädt die Leser in durchdacht konstruierte Welten ein, in denen tiefgründige Fragen mit fesselnder Prosa erforscht werden. Sein Schreiben zeugt von einer lebenslangen Hingabe an die Erzählkunst.

Aggravated: The True Story of How a Series of Lies Sent an Innocent Man to Prison

390 Seiten
14 Lesestunden

5,0(1)Abgeben

In 2006, the author's brother, Steve Sirois, was sentenced to serve 35 years in a Texas prison for a horrendous crime, aggravated sexual assault of a child -- a crime Steve swore he didn't commit. After the conviction, Michael started helping Steve write his appeals, but what he saw in the trial transcripts made him question how a jury could have convicted his brother based on that testimony.Steve's accuser originally gave vague dates for the crime but soon abandoned those dates and even replaced the details of her claims with new ones. There was no forensic evidence, no DNA, no physical evidence of any kind: nothing but his accuser's words. The author wondered if he could prove that her accusations were false. But how?Using affidavits, court transcripts, and interviews, along with additional evidence from public information requests and other factual data, the book lays out a devastating portrait of an untruthful accuser, an overzealous prosecutor, a jury that made a deal to swap votes in order to gain a conviction, and the series of lies that led to that outcome.