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Language
English
Description
In 1970, one of Mississippi's more colorful weekly newspapers went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by a 23 year-old college dropout, named Willie Traynor. The future of the paper looked grim until a young mother was brutally raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgitt family. Willie Traynor reported all the gruesome details and the paper began to prosper. The murderer, Danny Padgitt was tried before...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
A murder trial brings a small Mississippi town's racial tension to the flashpoint. Amid a frenzy of activist marches, Klan terror, media clamor and brutal riots, an unseasoned but idealistic young attorney mounts a stirring courtroom battle for justice.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
"Two John Grisham best-selling books come to life on the big screen in this drama-filled double-pack. The Pelican Brief finds Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington courting danger as they uncover a conspiracy tied to the murders of two Supreme Court Justices. Then Matthew McConaughey and Sandra Bullock join forces to save a black man from death in A Time to Kill." --Container.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
�2009
Language
English
Description
The pelican brief: Two Supreme Court justices have been assassinated. One lone law student has stumbled upon the truth. An investigative journalist wants her story. Everyone else wants her dead.
The client: A dying New Orleans attorney tells eleven-year-old Mark Sway a deadly secret about the recent murder of a Louisiana senator whose accused killer, a Mafia thug, is about to go to trial.
Runaway jury: After a man dies in a shooting incident, his...
6) Sycamore row
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In this novel the author takes you back to where it all began in A Time to Kill. Now we return to that famous courthouse in Clanton as Jake Brigance once again finds himself embroiled in a fiercely controversial trial; a trial that will expose old racial tensions and force Ford County to confront its tortured history. Seth Hubbard is a wealthy man dying of lung cancer. He trusts no one. Before he hangs himself from a sycamore tree, Hubbard leaves...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Court-appointed lawyer Jake Brigance puts his career, his financial security, and the safety of his family on the line to defend a sixteen-year-old suspect who is accused of killing a local deputy and is facing the death penalty.
Clanton, Mississippi. 1990. Jake Brigance finds himself embroiled in a deeply divisive trial when the court appoints him attorney for Drew Gamble, a timid sixteen-year-old boy accused of murdering a local deputy. Many in...
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The adventures of Tom Sawyer: Tom and his friend Huckleberry Finn are always getting into trouble, but when they witness a murder, they take a vow of silence and head down river on a raft. The whole town thinks they're dead, so when they return, they are in even more trouble--and not only with their families. The trial for the murder begins, and the killer needs to make sure they don't tell what they know.
Lil' treasure hunters: Nine-year-old Molly...
