September 2012 saw the release of two new high-profile books that should be of interest to law and film followers.
Life After Death, which is already being called a classic of prison literature, is an account by Damien Echols of his eighteen 
years in prison following the questionable conviction, along with two classmates, for the murder of three young boys in a case brought to public attention by the Paradise Lost film trilogy. Echols recounts his time spent on Death Row and reflects on the worldwide movement that developed to clear the names of all three defendants, who became known in the press as the West Memphis Three.
Although all three men were released from prison in 2011 in a surprise turn of events, the legal case is far from resolved and the quest for full justice continues. A new documentary, West of Memphis, co-produced by Echols and filmmakers Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh (The Lord of the Rings), premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival to rave reviews and arrives in theaters later this year.
In A Wilderness of Error: The Trials of Jeffrey McDonald, 
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line, Tabloid) takes a fresh look at the evidence from the infamous 1970s murder case that was first documented in Joe McGinnis’ bestselling true crime book Fatal Vision and a critically-acclaimed TV miniseries starring Karl Malden and Eva Marie Saint.
Morris, who has been investigating the case for over twenty years, reinvents the true crime book, with this meditation on truth, justice, the media, and the nature of trial evidence.
Law in the Reel World 