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Avery Keene thrillers volume 2
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"Avery Keene is back, trying to get her feet on solid ground after unraveling a conspiracy that took down the President of the United States. But as the sparks of impeachment hearings and political skirmishes swirl around her, Avery is approached at a legal conference by Preston Davies, an unassuming young man and fellow law clerk to a federal judge in Idaho. Davies believes his boss, Judge Francesca Whitner, was being blackmailed in the days before...
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John C. Sullivan, Jr. was a practicing attorney in Jackson, Mississippi for 58 years and a peer rated AV Preeminent Attorney by Martindale Hubble for many of those years. He is an Eagle Scout and a Vigil member of the Order
of the Arrow. He built a rustic cabin in the woods in Madison County, Mississippi at age15 and hunted, fished and trapped selling his pelts for extra spending money and was President of the Student Body of Jackson Central High...
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Clarence Darrow is best remembered for his individual cases, whether defending the thrill killers Leopold and Loeb or John Scopes's right to teach evolution in the classroom. In the first full-length biography of Darrow in decades, the historian Andrew E. Kersten narrates the complete life of America's most legendary lawyer and the struggle that defined it, the fight for the American traditions of individualism, freedom, and liberty in the face of...
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The true story of the defender of the Chicago 7
Alternately vilified as a publicity-seeking egoist and lauded as a rambunctious, fearless advocate, William Kunstler consistently embodied both of these qualities.
Kunstler's unrelenting, radical critique of American racism and the legal system took shape as a result of his efforts to enlist the federal judicial system to support the civil rights movement. In the late 60s and the 70s, Kunstler, refocusing...
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A successful former defense attorney exposes the raw truth about the courtroom "game" and a career spent defending the guilty As an advocate for the accused in Newark, New Jersey, criminal lawyer Seymour Wishman defended a vast array of clients, from burglars and thieves to rapists and murderers. Many of them were poor and undereducated, and nearly all of them were guilty. But it was not Wishman's duty to pass moral judgment on those he represented....
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This memoir will give you not only a sense of Graten Beaver's life, but also of life in his time. Rooted in a close entrepreneurial family in small-town Nebraska in the 1950s and 1960s, he learned early the importance of hard work, education, and service. He started out sweeping the sidewalk in front of his parent's grocery store, worked his way through college, and progressed into a multi-dimensional law career. In this book you'll read about how...
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"Wonderfully evocative… Donald McRae captures the Great Defender in all his complexity.... A joy to read." - Kevin Boyle, National Book Award-winning author of Arc of Justice
"Astonishingly vivid." -James Tobin, Award-winning author of Ernie Pyle's War
The story of the three dramatic trials that resurrected the life and career of America's most colorful-and controversial-defense attorney: Clarence Darrow. Many books, plays, and movies have covered...
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Diese Ausgabe von "Franz Lieber - Ein Bürger zweier Welten" wurde mit einem funktionalen Layout erstellt und sorgfältig formatiert.
Francis Lieber (1800-1872), ursprünglich Franz Lieber, war ein deutsch-amerikanischer Jurist, Publizist und Rechts- und Staatsphilosoph. Er wurde bekannt durch die Erstellung des Lieber Codes, einer Vorschrift zur Kriegsführung, die durch einen Erlass des damaligen US-Präsidenten Abraham Lincoln für die Truppen...
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A memoir and selected writings by the former Chief Judge of New York's highest court, the Court of Appeals.
In 1983, Judith S. Kaye (1938-2016) became the first woman appointed to the Court of Appeals, New York's highest court. Ten years later, she became the first woman to be appointed chief judge of the xourt, and by the time she retired, in 2008, she was the longest-serving chief judge in the court's history. During her long career, she distinguished...
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Andrés Manuel López Obrador (Tepetitán, Macuspana, Tabasco, México; 13 de noviembre de 1953) presidente de México (2018-2024) claramente ha intentado consolidarse como un dictador tropical, en su intento ha asesinado de forma sistemática a niñas, niños, adolescentes y adultos mayores por su necedad al negarse a comprar medicamentos para la mayoría de los tipos de cáncer, medicamentos retrovirales para personas enfermas de VIH y otros medicamentos...
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Gregory sat in a small cell that he shared with another inmate and questioned, "why am I here...Lord? What did I do wrong to cost me the rest of my life in prison with a walking death sentence? Please let me know, I am man enough to handle it, but I need to know where I went wrong?"
The answer came in three simple words, "It was rigged!"
As soon as Gregory was arrested for a murder and assault that his mentally ill brother committed, he set out on...
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Frank I. Michelman is Robert Walmsley University Professor of Law at Harvard University. He was law clerk to Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. during the 1961-62 term of the U.S. Supreme Court.
In Brennan and Democracy, a leading thinker in U.S. constitutional law offers some powerful reflections on the idea of "constitutional democracy," a concept in which many have seen the makings of paradox. Here Frank Michelman explores the apparently conflicting...
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Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan (1833-1911) is best known for condemning racial segregation in his dissent from Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, when he declared, "Our Constitution is color-blind." But in other judicial decisions-as well as in some areas of his life-Harlan's actions directly contradicted the essence of his famous statement. Similarly, Harlan was called the people's judge for favoring income tax and antitrust laws, yet he also...
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A trial attorney recounts her fight against insurance companies who put profit before patients-and wrongfully terminate doctors who don't comply.
In the modern world of American medicine, insurance companies call the shots. Their policies often require cutting corners on patient care in pursuit of profit. These policies often reduce the amount of time doctors spend with patients, push older and cheaper medications, and limit the number of tests and...
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Speaking the Ruth to America
Ruth Bader Ginsburg became a Supreme Court Justice in 1993, but her popularity has exploded over the last couple of years as she has been adopted as a modern feminist icon. An octogenarian who has proven that disagreeing does not make one disagreeable, Ginsburg is well-known for her pithy observations as well as her strongly argued dissents. Beloved by many, including her ideological opposition, former Supreme Court Justice...
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To know the story of the life and times of Judge Gilbert Merritt is to understand modern U.S. politics of the mid to late 20th century-how it came to be, and how it worked-particularly in the American South.
Judge Gilbert Merritt and his circle of young lawyers and journalists in Nashville were among the South's earliest Kennedy Democrats in the late 1950s. Their brash political strivings, though not always victorious at the polls, affected the shape...
20) Asesinos famosos
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Los asesinos en serie a veces parecen maniáticos sin control, a veces parecen buenos hombres de familia, a veces incluso parecen ángeles. Sin embargo, todos tienen en común haber tenido alguna vez el deseo de matar un ser humano, haber satisfecho este deseo y haber comenzado de nuevo. Una y otra vez…
El asesino en serie es una persona con anomalías mentales específicas. Estos trastornos implican la aparición y el desarrollo de un comportamiento...