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Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
447 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the daughter of prominent civil litigator Graham Hutchins is found with her throat slashed, the woman's spurned ex-boyfriend seems the likely suspect. But only days later, the young man dies in what appears to be a suicide. Or was it? Now authorities are faced with a possible new crime. And their person of interest is Hutchins. After all, avenging the death of his daughter is the perfect reason to kill. If he's as innocent as he claims, only...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
416 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Samantha Brickman is hired as the legal advocate for Cassie Sonnenberg after a brutal stabbing left the teenager's father and brother dead. It's a tabloid-ready case that has the nation in an uproar--and Sam facing her biggest challenge yet. As Sam digs to find answers, she becomes more personally entangled in the case, and ends up facing a choice she never dreamed she'd have to make, --
64) A killer's alibi
Author
Series
Philadelphia legal volume 3
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
417 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When crime lord Jimmy Nunzio is caught, knife in hand, over the body of his daughter's lover and his own archenemy, he turns to Mick McFarland to take up his defense. Usually the courtroom puppeteer, McFarland quickly finds himself at the end of Nunzio's strings. Struggling to find grounds for a not-guilty verdict on behalf of a well-known killer, Mick is hamstrung by Nunzio's refusal to tell him what really happened. On the other side of the law,...
Author
Series
Joe Dillard volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
A criminal court judge is found hanging from a tree. A young employee of the district attorney's office goes missing. In this third book of the best-selling Joe Dillard series, Dillard finds himself in the middle of two volatile mysteries. The primary suspect in the judge's murder is Dillard's son's best friend, and Dillard's wife may have destroyed evidence. Meanwhile, the missing girl turns out to be a mystery far deeper than anyone imagined.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 218 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Reconstructing his father's defense of a black man charged with raping a white woman in 1938 and exploring the similarities between his father's story and the one at the heart of To Kill a Mockingbird, the author presents a gripping narrative of how race, class and the memory of the South's defeat in the Civil War produced the trial's outcome.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Greenbrier, West Virginia, 1897. Despite her mother's misgivings, willful Zona Heaster marries Erasmus Trout Shue, the blacksmith. Weeks later Mary Jane Heaster receives word that Zona died from a fall, attributed to a recent illness. Determined to get justice for her daughter, she informs the county prosecutor that Zona's ghost appeared to her, saying that she had been murdered; an autopsy confirms her claim. Lakin, West Virginia, 1930. Consigned...
68) Blood defense
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Samantha Brinkman, an ambitious, hard-charging Los Angeles criminal defense attorney, is struggling to make a name for herself and to drag her fledgling practice into the big leagues. Sam lands a high-profile double-murder case in which one of the victims is a beloved TV star, and the defendant is a decorated veteran LAPD detective. It promises to be exactly the kind of media sensation that would establish her as a heavy hitter in the world of criminal...
Author
Series
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
249 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Attorney-detective Leo Maxwell seeks an exit strategy from his family's deepening entanglement with a ruthless prison-based gang. Caught between the criminals and the FBI, Leo charts his own path in defending a young woman who was manipulated into brazenly murdering a member of the Aryan Brotherhood in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood.
Author
Series
Publisher
Seventh Street Books, an imprint of Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Former topnotch attorney Parker Stern, still crippled by courtroom stage fright, takes on a dicey case for an elusive video game designer known to the world only by the name of Poniard. In Poniard's blockbuster online video game, Abduction!, a real-life movie mogul is charged with kidnapping and murdering a beautiful actress who disappeared in the 1980s. Predictably, the mogul--William the Conqueror Bishop--has responded with a libel lawsuit. Now...
72) Reasonable fear
Author
Series
Publisher
Phoenix Flying, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Joe Dillard has become the district attorney in Northeast Tennessee and is confronted with the most difficult case of his life. Three young women have been murdered, and Dillard becomes deeply involved in the case with Sheriff Leon Bates. Dillard soon realizes that he is up against an enemy that he has never before encountered; someone so rich and so powerful that the course of justice could easily be altered by money and politics. When the villains...
73) Phil Spector
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winners Al Pacino and Helen Mirren star in this production written and directed by Pulitzer Prize-winning and Oscar-nominated playwrite David Mamet. An exploration of the client-attorney relationship between legendary music producer Phil Spector and defense attorney Linda Kenney Baden, who represented Spector during his first trial for murder.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
254 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Criminal That I Am is a defense attorney's account of the criminal justice system as seen through the prism of a particular case: her own. Jennifer Ridha is enlisted to defend Cameron Douglas in a Federal drug trafficking case while he is incarcerated in a maximum-security prison under difficult, even dangerous, conditions. As media scrutiny and the pressures of Cameron's case mount and as Jennifer becomes increasingly transfixed by her charismatic,...
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow and Company
Pub. Date
[1964]
Physical Desc
224 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Horace Warren pays five hundred dollars to have Perry mason attend a buffet dinner to observe his guests. He also wants Mason to investigate a fingerprint and suspects his wife is being blackmailed. Mrs Warren's mystery past may hold the clues.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 321 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Brittany K. Barnett was only a law student when she came across the case that would change her life forever-that of Sharanda Jones, single mother, business owner, and, like Brittany, Black daughter of the rural South. A victim of America's devastating war on drugs, Sharanda had been torn away from her young daughter and was serving a life sentence without parole-for a first-time drug offense. In Sharanda, Brittany saw haunting echoes of her own life,...
77) The wrong man
Author
Series
Jason Kolarich novels volume 3
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Jason Kolarich accepts the case of a homeless Iraq War veteran accused of murdering a young paralegal, his course seems clear: to mount an insanity defense for a man suffering so badly from post-traumatic stress disorder that he has no real memory of the crime. But as Kolarich digs deeper, he realizes that, unlikely as it seems, his client is probably innocent. Only days before her death, the murdered paralegal had stumbled onto something she...
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