| Just because you are the Upper Merion High | | | | enlightened at the events that transpired as Smith |
| School principal doesn’t mean the law gives | | | | describes them in detail. One event exposed in |
| you free reign over its mandate. | | | | the book is the emergence of hard evidence |
| Self-published author Jay Smith was that Upper | | | | through a “junkman” who uprooted stems |
| Merion High School Principal. He was sentenced to | | | | of documents stashed in the house of the state |
| death in 1986 and spent six years on | | | | prosecutor, who apparently hoped to hide |
| Pennsylvania’s death row for the murders of | | | | everything along with Smith’s innocence. |
| Upper Merion teacher Susan Reinert and her | | | | Smith says that even if he was a likely candidate |
| children. Jay is the only person to receive a | | | | because of a few accidental brushes with law, it |
| double-jeopardy decision in a capital case and was | | | | was not enough for people to point their fingers |
| released when the Supreme Court dismissed his | | | | at him. Joseph Wambaugh and the Jay Smith |
| case. He aims to redeem himself by making his | | | | Case is an expression of the author’s |
| story known to the public. | | | | suppressed cries for justice and freedom, which |
| In the self-published book, Joseph Wambaugh and | | | | he was deprived of during his time in prison. He |
| the Jay Smith Case, Smith names another Upper | | | | battled for the people’s unbiased |
| Merion teacher William Bradfield, the state police | | | | understanding and judgment and is now fighting |
| investigators and the case's prosecutor, and | | | | for an end to death penalty. |
| Joseph Wambaugh, the California crime writer as | | | | About Xlibris |
| the collaborators responsible for placing him behind | | | | Xlibris was founded in 1997 and, as the leading |
| bars. “A frame-up” is an understatement | | | | publishing services provider for authors, has |
| because, as Smith asserts, the evidence privy to | | | | helped to publish more than 20,000 titles. Xlibris is |
| help his acquittal was concealed. | | | | based in Philadelphia, PA and provides authors with |
| The author refutes in this Xlibris release | | | | direct and personal access to quality publication in |
| everything that he was wrongfully accused of, | | | | hardcover, trade paperback, custom |
| and lambasted Joseph Wambaugh as the prime | | | | leather-bound, and full-color formats. |
| mover of the entire operation. Readers will be | | | | |