I did enjoy this and I thought Rudolf did a solid job of laying out how each stage of the 'criminal justice' world has deeply rooted issues. I don't know that it flows super well, it feels a little disjointed and a combination of Rudolf trying to not talk about himself too much but also talk about himself?

American Injustice is an important book, but it reads like the dry nonfiction that it is. He talks about so many cases that it is hard to keep them straight. What is clear, however, is how messed up the criminal justice system in our country is. Most of the cases he talks about were from North Carolina, my home state, and I am surprised by how little I knew about any of them (with the exception of the case "The Staircase" is based on, since that has been popularized recently).
Some quotes from the book:
"Police and prosecutors routinely engage in a variety of abuses of power to obtain convictions." (the basis of the entire book)
"There is a humanity to everyone charged with a crime. None of us wants that humanity to be forgotten or discarded, no matter what we may have done in the moment."
"The goal of the defense lawyer... Is to put the defendant's conduct into a larger context, so that they will not be judged and punished solely for what in many cases is the worst decision they will ever make."
"Suspects falsely confess every day in the United States. And even more people plead guilty to crimes they didn't commit, because the option of waiting months, or even years, to go to trial, and the consequences of losing that trial, are overwhelming."
"The interpretation of forensic evidence is not always based on scientific studies to determine its validity."