The archive contains an electronic (pdf) edition of the suppressed book "Smith County Justice" by investigative journalist David Ellsworth (1985) and released by Wikileaks. The book, which exposes corruption in the criminal legal system of Smith County, Texas, USA, was withdrawn by the publisher and removed from all bookstores shortly after publication due to pressure from the authorities exposed in the book.
Since then, there has been a concerted effort to suppress the work, resulting in used editions of the book becoming rare and expensive (currently $500 on amazon. com). It is hoped that the availability of this electronic editition will make that suppression more difficult.
http://wikileaks.org/leak/smith-county-justice/book.pdf
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I spend many years of my college life in Tyler and heard about this book from hushed voices at parties...but never had a chance to read it. I still have many friends that live there and I visit as often as possible.
Get from it all that you will...
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UPDATE (7/18/2008) - One of my old friends from Tyler had always assumed that this old story had a possible connection to the 1991 movie Rush. Quick informally research didn't pull up much...but he informed me today of the tie in. Kim Wozencraft wrote the novel "Rush" which the movie was based. Wozencraft based the novel Rush on events in her real life. Although she sold it as fiction, and changed the names of the characters, Wozencraft and her partner, later her husband, Creig Matthews, served time in federal prison for civil rights violations as a result of false drug arrests they made in Tyler, Texas in the late 1970s. Author David Ellsworth wrote the complete, nonfiction version of the story in his book, Smith County Justice [Discovery Press, 1985] several years before Wozencraft published her novel. Now, you know....
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