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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Tough-as-nails criminal defense attorney Jane Smith is hip-deep in the murder trial of the century. Actually, her charmless client might've committed several murders. She's also fallen in love with a wonderful guy. And an equally wonderful dog, a mutt. But Jane doesn't have much time. She's just received a terminal diagnosis giving her twelve months. Unless she's murdered before her expiration date"--
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
375 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
A thriller told in reverse centers on a woman who is undergoing a murder trial overseen by a prosecutor who is strongly pursuing a death penalty and an FBI agent who would force the defendant to betray her family.
Author
Series
Penn Cage novels volume 4
Description
Penn Cage must investigate when his father, a beloved family doctor and pillar of the community, is accused of murdering Violet Davis, the beautiful nurse with whom he worked in the dark days of the early 1960s.
4) Smash cut
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Description
The murder of Paul Wheeler has all the elements of a blockbuster: family rivalries, incalculable wealth, and a prominent man dying in the arms of his beautiful mistress. It's a case that could earn Derek Mitchell even greater star power. When the Wheeler family approaches him about defending Creighton for his uncle's murder--even before he's charged--he jumps at the chance. But the more Derek learns about Creighton and his darker side, the more he...
5) Jagged edge
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An heiress is brutally murdered in her remote beach house, and her husband is the prime suspect. He hires a female lawyer who falls in love with him while she is defending him in court.
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction: a true crime story that will terrify anyone who believes in the presumption of innocence. • LOOK FOR THE NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES
“Both an American tragedy and [Grisham’s] strongest legal thriller yet, all the more gripping because it happens to be true.”—Entertainment Weekly
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“Both an American tragedy and [Grisham’s] strongest legal thriller yet, all the more gripping because it happens to be true.”—Entertainment Weekly
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"Sybil White Brown returns from Boston to the small West Coast city where she once lived, hoping to heal after a terrible loss. Summoned to jury duty, she is dismayed to be assigned to the jury of a murder trial alongside her ex-husband with whom she had a rancorous divorce. As the trial progresses, she and her ex tiptoe around each other but eventually become disastrously entangled. Meanwhile, Sybil obsesses about the female defendant, whom she believes...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
173 pages ; 22 cm
Description
The place: central Florida. The situation: a sensational murder trial involving a rich, white teenage girl--a twin--on trial for the horrific murder of her toddler brother, and the sequestered jury deciding her fate. . Two of the jurors sequestered (she, Juror C-2; he, F-17), holed up at the Econo-Lodge off I-75. As the shocking and numbing details of the crime and its surrounding facts are revealed during a string of days and seemingly endless court...
10) La vérité
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Formats
Description
Beautiful, troubled Dominique Marceau came to bohemian Paris to escape the suffocation of provincial life, only to wind up in a courtroom, accused of a terrible crime: the murder of her lover. As the trial commences and the lawyers begin tangling over Dominique's fate, Henri-Georges Clouzot's Oscar-nominated La vérité delves into her past, reconstructing her struggle to find a foothold in the city.
12) Primal fear
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 130) : sd., col., stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Chicago altar boy is accused of murdering the archbishop and a publicity hungry local attorney decides to defend him.
13) Chicago
Series
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 213 min.) : sd., b&w and tinted ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (15 p. : ill. ;19 cm.).
Description
The story of jazz-loving flapper Roxie Hart, put on trial for the murder of her lover, who hits the headlines with her courtroom theatrics.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Colleen is an Iraq-war-veteran-turned-Pitchlynn, Mississippi-homemaker, and she works hard to keep her deployment behind her-until her pregnancy churns up trauma so acute it threatens her husband, her family, and herself. Magnifying her anxiety is the media frenzy surrounding the retrial of Colleen's father-in-law, Hare Hobbs, for a Civil Rights-era murder. As the trial draws nearer, the question of Hare's guilt grows to implicate the town of Pitchlynn...
Author
Series
Perry Mason mysteries volume 61
Publisher
W.J. Black
Pub. Date
c1959
Physical Desc
176 p. ; 20 cm.
17) Daddy and them
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Struggling musician Claude and his wife Ruby get the news that Claude's uncle Hazel has been accused of murder and is in jail awaiting trial. Claude and Ruby head for the Arkansas town where they grew up, and, before long, there's a friendly (and sometimes not-so-friendly) war of words among the factions of the family, including Claude's mother Jewel, father O.T., and sister Rose.
18) Th1rt3en
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"The serial killer isn't on trial. He's on the jury. "Outstanding - an intriguing premise, a tense, gripping build-up, and a spectacular climax. This guy is the real deal. Trust me." --Lee Child "A dead bang BEAST of a book that expertly combines Cavanagh's authority on the law with an absolutely great thrill ride. Books this ingenious don't come along very often." --Michael Connelly It's the murder trial of the century. And Joshua Kane has killed...
19) A time to kill
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD, sides A & B (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A murder trial brings a small Mississippi town's racial tensions 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.
Author
Publisher
BookShots, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
446 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
Collects four fast-paced suspense novellas, including "The Trial," in which a vicious drug lord unleashes unexpected violence on the lawyers, jurors, and police involved in his case.
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