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1) Juror #3
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English
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Ruby Bozarth, a newcomer to Rosedale, Mississippi, is also fresh to the Mississippi Bar-- and to the docket of Circuit Judge Baylor, who taps Ruby as defense counsel in a racially charged felony. The murder of a woman from one of the town's oldest families has Rosedale's upper crust howling for blood, and the prosecutor is counting on Ruby's inexperience to help him deliver a swift conviction. Ruby's client is a college football star who has returned...
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English
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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...
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Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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He is obsessed with her innocence. He will be destroyed by her guilt.
The walls were champagne. The house was immaculate. A prosperous doctor lived there with his son and his beautiful wife. But the elegant walls hid a family's secret, a wife's shame. And one day shots rang out in the doctor's house. Suddenly Jennifer Witt was in jail, facing the death penalty.
Jennifer insisted...
The walls were champagne. The house was immaculate. A prosperous doctor lived there with his son and his beautiful wife. But the elegant walls hid a family's secret, a wife's shame. And one day shots rang out in the doctor's house. Suddenly Jennifer Witt was in jail, facing the death penalty.
Jennifer insisted...
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
A legal thriller featuring a battered San Francisco wife accused of shooting both her husband and her seven-year-old son. When the trial opens she refuses to allow a defense of spousal abuse because of its implication of guilt. Which presents her lawyer, the narrator, with a major problem as the prosecution claims she killed the husband for the insurance. By the author of Hard Evidence.
5) The juror
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A struggling single mother impulsively agrees to serve on a jury hoping for a little excitement in her humdrum life. She gets far more than she bargained for when she's forced to sacrifice the truth to save her son from the mob's seductive, psychotic enforcer.
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Pub. Date
℗2003, ℗2004.
Physical Desc
10 sound discs : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
King of torts: Young public defender Clay Carter reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing. But as he digs into the background of his client, Clay stumbles on a conspiracy and finds himself in the middle of a complex case against one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. Last juror: A convicted rapist and murderer returns to Ford County, Mississippi, seeking revenge on the jurors who dared convict...
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Mairead O'Clare novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1997.
Physical Desc
136 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The reader assumes the role of a juror in eight famous trials of the twentieth century: the Lindbergh kidnapping, Sullivan v. New York Times, the Chicago Seven, Patty Hearst's trial for armed robbery, and others.
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2016.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Michael Robertson has delighted mystery readers and Sherlock Holmes aficionados everywhere with his charming and innovative Baker Street mystery series, where brothers Reggie and Nigel Heath are charged with answering letters to Sherlock that arrive at their law office, located at 221B Baker Street. In the exclusive London suburb of Hampstead Heath, Rory McSweeny--a true national hero, having led the England cricket team to successive international...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
161 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In May of 1976, twenty-four-year-old Carol Menaker was impaneled with eleven others on a jury in the trial of Freddy Burton, a young Black prison inmate charged with the grisly murders of two white wardens inside Philadelphia's Holmesburg Prison. After being sequestered for twenty-one days, the jury voted to convict Mr. Burton, who was then sentenced to life in prison without parole. For more than forty years, Menaker did what she could to put the...
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