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41) The wrong side
Author
Series
Bocephus Haynes volume 2
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"Teen pop star Brittany Crutcher is found dead in small- town Tennessee. For attorney Bocephus Haynes, it's just another night in Pulaski. Bo swore off criminal work after his last case, but the beloved singer's murder demands answers. The prime suspect islocal high school football hero and the victim's boyfriend, Odell Champagne. However, this fallen athlete is one of Bo's son's best friends. Bo knows this young man and does not believe him capable...
42) Turning angel
Author
Series
Penn Cage novels volume 2
Description
Lawyer Penn Cage returns to defend his best friend since childhood for the murder of a young female student, with whom his friend was intimate, at their old alma mater, St. Stephen's Prep.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
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Description
In 2008, a cheerful ambulance-chasing lawyer named Jay Shenk persuades the grieving Keener family to sue a private LA hospital. Their son Wesley has been transformed by a routine surgery into a kind of golem, absent all normal functioning or personality, walking in endless empty circles around his hospital room. In 2019, Shenk?still in practice but a shell of his former self?is hired to defend Wesley Keener?s father when he is charged with murder...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
288 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Description
Defense attorney David Nash has made a career out of setting monsters free-and no one does it better. Now a case has come to "the Ice Man" that could help cleanse Nash of the guilt and doubts that torment him: that rarest of all defendants, an innocent man. A family man, a rising star in the legal profession, this new client has been accused of a heinous crime-the brutal murder of an undercover vice cop. But the case that is supposed to be Nash's...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
394 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Having built a successful career based on his famous prosecution of a serial killer fifteen years earlier, attorney Paul Riley realizes that his past case has eerie ties to a new series of murders and that the killer has an agenda aimed specifically at Paul himself.
Author
Series
Stanley Hastings mysteries volume 20
Formats
Description
When his hotshot lawyer boss is charged with the murder of his girlfriend and subjected to the death penalty, Stanley Hastings endures a nightmarish, sensational trial that is hampered by the unavailability of key witnesses and his ties to the defendant.
Author
Series
Pretty little liars volume 16
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
On trial for murdering an actually still-alive Alison DiLaurentis, only Aria, Emily, Spencer, and Hanna know they have been framed and resolve to beat Ali at her own game.
49) Upper world
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011], ©2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (73 min.) : sound, b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A wealthy railroad magnate who is devoted to his family is neglected by his wife. He begins to spend time with a sympathetic showgirl. The showgirl's boyfriend tries to blackmail him; in the resulting melee, the showgirl is killed by the boyfriend, and the boyfriend is killed by the magnate, who then tries to cover up the crime.
50) Trial
Author
Formats
Description
When Malcolm Hill, a black eighteen-year-old voting rights worker, is arrested for murder, white congressman Chase Brevard of Massachusetts finds his life transformed in a single moment by the appearance of Malcolm's photo on the news, enveloping him, Malcolm, and Malcolm's mother in a media firestorm that threatens their lives.
51) Eclipse
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Formats
Description
The spellbinding story of an American lawyer who takes on a nearly impossible case--the defense of an African freedom fighter against his corrupt government's charge of murdering three PetroGlobal workers.
52) Killing for love
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of Elizabeth Haysom, a wealthy University of Virginia student and her boyfriend, Jens Söring, who were arrested, tried, and convicted for the murder of Elizabeth's parents.
53) Canal Street
Publisher
Smith Global Media
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A man fights in court for his son's vindication after he is arrested for the murder of a white classmate.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Formats
Description
In 1920s London, brutal and bloodthirsty murder has stained the plush carpets of a handsome London townhouse. The victim is the glamorous and rich Emily French. All the evidence points to Leonard Vole, a young chancer to whom the heiress left her vast fortune and who ruthlessly took her life. At least, this is the story that Emily's dedicated housekeeper Janet Mcintyre stands by in court. Leonard however, is adamant that his partner, the enigmatic...
56) Boomerang!
Series
Fox film noir volume 16
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 88 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a beloved priest is gunned down, the local police chief is under enormous pressure to find his murderer. When a massive manhunt produces a suspect, the state's attorney is determined to convict only if it is the right person despite political pressures.
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 10
Formats
Description
As San Francisc lawyer Dismas Hardy works second chair on a juvenile murder trial, a killer is shooting citizens wantonly and the two cases make a shocking twist.
58) Blue diary
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2001
Physical Desc
5 CDs (ca. 6 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The lives of the people of the small town of Monroe, Massachusetts are shattered when beloved friend and neighbor Ethan Ford--a Little League coach, trusted contractor, doting husband and father, and heroic volunteer fireman--is arrested for a fifteen-year-old murder which he readily admits to committing.
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Description
"It's the most sensational case of the decade. Fifteen-year-old Jessica Silver, heiress to a billion-dollar real estate fortune, vanishes on her way home from school. Her teacher Bobby Nock, a twenty-five-year-old African American man, is the prime suspect after illicit text messages are discovered between them--and Jessica's blood is found in his car. The subsequent trial taps straight into America's most pressing preoccupations: race, class, sex,...
Author
Formats
Description
This novel tracks the process by which an ordinary young man is capable of committing a ruthless murder, and the further process by which social and political forces come into play after his arrest. In Clyde Griffiths, the impoverished, restless offspring of a family of street preachers, we see a portrait of a man whose circumstances and dreams of self-betterment conspire to pull him toward an act of unforgivable violence.
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