Karen McKinney

About The Author

Karen McKinney is a career prosecutor and former public defender who rose to the highest ranks of the gang unit in Orange County, California. She is also a screenwriter and producer who has developed a pilot script with Law & Orderproducer Robert Nathan and another with producer partner Gary Hart, former head of Paramount TV. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the Charles Widger School of Law at Villanova University, Karen lives with her husband and two children in Orange County, California, where she continues to work in the district attorney’s office.

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Books by Karen McKinney

Misjudged

An Unlikely Friendship Between a Prosecutor and a Convict

By Karen McKinney

For fans of Just Mercy and What My Bones Know, the story of a gang prosecutor who reunites with the man she sent away for life twenty years after the fact—and learns the true meaning of justice, compassion, redemption, and connection.

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