Gary Stuart

A new book by Gary Stuart, Senior Policy Advisor at the College of Law, is “more than a history of the Temple Murders and an important exploration of the dangers of coerced confessions,” according to a review in the October issue of Arizona Attorney.

“It is a very good read,” writes reviewer Tom Galbraith, a former attorney at the Phoenix law firm of Meyer Hendricks.

Stuart’s book, Innocent Until Interrogated: The Story of the Buddhist Tempe Massacre and the Tucson Four, was published by the University of Arizona Press in July. In his research, Stuart listened to all of the tapes made by a sheriff’s task force to preserve the information it obtained questioning four men who confessed to murdering nine people at a Buddhist temple in west Phoenix in 1991. Stuart also read more than 2,600 single-spaced pages of custodial interrogation.

Stuart’s work was chosen by its publisher as the featured book for its fall catalog, and the August issue of Booklist Magazine gave it a coveted starred review.

To read the rest of Galbraith’s review, click here.