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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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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...
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A collection of US Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's legal writings spanning her career, featuring her arguments, opinions, and dissents.
US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spent her life defying notions about women. She garnered the status of a cultural icon, the "Notorious RBG." Her life story is inspirational, and her work ethic is aspirational. Ginsburg's dissents on behalf of liberal values have been lauded. She has been the subject of...
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Voted by her peers as one of the best lawyers in America, and described by Time magazine as "one of the nation's most effective advocates of family rights and feminist causes," Allred has devoted her career to fighting for civil rights and has won hundreds of millions of dollars for victims of abuse. She has taken on countless institutions to promote equality, including the Boy Scouts, the Friars Club, and the United States Senate. And as the attorney...
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An Edgar Award–winning account of miscarriages of justice, wrongful convictions, legal battles, and landmark reversals by the creator of Perry Mason. In 1945, Erle Stanley Gardner, noted attorney and author of the popular Perry Mason mysteries, was contacted by an overwhelmed California public defender who believed his doomed client was innocent. William Marvin Lindley had been convicted of the rape and murder of a young girl along the banks...
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A Poignant Memoir of Inspiration and Wisdom
Judie Dziezak is no stranger to adversity. Those who know her as an attorney, technology writer, or scientist see a soft-spoken, pleasant, competent professional who courageously stands up for what's right even when she is the only one standing. What they don't know is that growing up, she wrestled with a tumultuous crescendo of abuse from her mentally ill mother....
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Convictions is a spellbinding story from the front lines of the fight against crime. Most Americans know little about the work of assistant United States attorneys, the federal prosecutors who possess sweeping authority to investigate and prosecute the nation's most dangerous criminals. John Kroger pursued high-profile cases against Mafia killers, drug kingpins, and Enron executives. Starting from his time as a green recruit and ending at the peak...
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"L'audience est ouverte : faites entrer la juge" est une autobiographie qui relate des enquêtes captivantes impliquant la mafia internationale ainsi que les milieux criminels lyonnais, corses et marseillais. Ce livre met en évidence l'importance cruciale de la collaboration des magistrats avec la police scientifique, les médecins légistes et les experts.
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Juge d'instruction à la JIRS – Juridictions interrégionales spécialisées...
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The most famous lawyer in America talks about the law, his life, and how he has won.
Johnnie Cochran has been a lawyer for almost forty years. In that time, he has taken on dozens of groundbreaking cases and emerged as a pivotal figure in race relations in America. Cochran gained international recognition as one of America's best - and most controversial lawyers - for leading 'the Dream Team' defense of accused killer O.J. Simpson in the Trial of...
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Stafford Lee Penney is a small-town lawyer with a big-time reputation for winning every case he tries. In his sharp suits and polished Oxford shoes, Penney is Biloxi, Mississippi's #1 Lawyer and top local celebrity. Just as Penney notches his latest courtroom victory, his wife is scandalously killed. He spirals into a legal and personal losing streak, damaging his reputation and ruining his career. That's when Penney makes a bold decision. He stops...
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"TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their highly successful firm--except him. After a stint in prison and rehab for alcoholism, TJ can't get hired anywhere except at the firm, in a make-work job with the title of investigator. But one night, TJ's world turns upside down after his older brother John confesses that he just murdered one of the clients, an accountant he'd confronted with...
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"Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially-charged murder case sets a duo of white and Black lawyers against a deeply unfair system as they work to defend their wrongfully-accused Black defendants When two wealthy white landowners are found dead, the whole country immediately thinks it must be Jerome Washington, the hired help, who killed them. He was standing over the bodies when the police responded to an anonymous call...
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"An adaptation of the Olivier Award-winning play that the New York Times wrote radiated with "visceral power," Suzie Miller's legal thriller Prima Facie is a heartbreaking, nuanced look at the system's flaws when protecting sexual assault and rape survivors, through the eyes of a star defense attorney"--