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2) Perry Mason
Publisher
Columbia House
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Full screen collector's ed.
Physical Desc
22 videodiscs : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This popular series remains one of the most highly rated courtroom dramas of all time. Raymond Burr's portrayal defined the role of defense attorneys and stands today as an icon on par with Superman and the Lone Ranger.
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A recent study estimates that thousands of innocent people are wrongfully imprisoned each year in the United States. Some are exonerated through DNA evidence, but many more languish in prison because their convictions were based on faulty eyewitness accounts and no DNA is available. Prominent criminal lawyer and law professor Abbe Smith weaves together real life cases to show what it is like to champion the rights of the accused. Smith describes the...
Author
Publisher
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
3rd edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 719 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Criminal Procedure: Theory and Practice, 3rd Edition, presents a broad overview of criminal procedure as well as a detailed analysis of specific areas of the law that require specialized consideration. The third edition provides students with an updated, comprehensive text written in reader-friendly language to introduce them the field of criminal procedure. Significant edited legal cases are integrated into each chapter, and comments, notes and...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2013, c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 384 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The legal drama of a man who'd spent almost forty years in prison for murders he denied committing and the tenacious lawyers who believed in his innocence.
In the spring of 1962, on an isolated stretch of Arizona desert, an abandoned car and two bodies were discovered. This brutal murder of a young couple bewildered the sheriff's department of Maricopa County for years; despite a few promising leads the case went cold. More than a decade later, a...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"P.I. Spenser, knight-errant of the Back Bay, returns in this stellar addition to the iconic New York Times-bestselling series from author Ace Atkins. What started out as a joke landed seventeen-year-old Dillon Yates in a lockdown juvenile facility in Boston Harbor. When he set up a prank Twitter account for his vice principal, he never dreamed he could be brought up on criminal charges, but that's exactly what happened. This is Blackburn, Massachusetts,...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
341 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Kevin Corvelli--a hot shot New York defense attorney who packed up his bags and hung his shingle in Hawaii to dodge the spotlight--is deep in his Mai Tais at a resort when an argument erupts down the bar. It's a pair of newlyweds, married that day. And since Corvelli doesn't do divorces, he all but dismisses the argument. That's at least until the fire breaks out later that night, and he barely escapes his hotel room. Most weren't so lucky, including...
10) Find me guilty
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mobster Jackie Dee DiNorscio tries to strike a bargain with police: a shorter prison term in exchange for ratting on his fellow mobsters. He takes matters in his own hands when he defends himself instead, turning the courtroom upside down.
11) Convicted
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Charlotte Cory is a convicted murderer spending her final days on Death Row. Her hopes and dreams are as lifeless as the walls that surround her. That is until the letters of a stranger awaken passions in her she thought had died long ago. While her attorney tries to appeal the verdict, Frank, the stranger, realizes he has fallen in love with Charlotte. Frank discovers that there are untold secrets behind the tragic circumstances of her imprisonment....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As a child, Joseph Beck heard the stories--when other lawyers came up with excuses, his father courageously defended a black man charged with raping a white woman. Now a lawyer himself, Beck reconstructs his father's role in State of Alabama vs. Charles White, Alias, a trial that was much publicized when Harper Lee was twelve years old"--Dust jacket flap.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
.2006
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (16 hrs., 39 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This popular series remains one of the most highly rated courtroom dramas of all time. Raymond Burr's portrayal defined the role of defense attorneys and stands today as an icon on par with Superman and the Lone Ranger.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
viii, 404 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Publisher's description: In a trial in California, Navajo defendants argue that using the hallucinogen peyote to achieve spiritual exaltation is protected by the Constitution's free exercise of religion clause, trumping the states' right to regulate them. An Ibo man from Nigeria sues Pan American World Airways for transporting his mother's corpse in a cloth sack. Her arrival for the funeral face down in a burlap bag signifies death by suicide according...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xiv, 269 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
It was September 18, 2001, just seven days after al-Qaeda hijackers destroyed the Twin Towers. In the early morning darkness, a lone figure dropped several letters into a mailbox. Seventeen days later a Florida journalist died of inhalational anthrax. The death from the rare disease made world news. These anthrax attacks marked the first time a sophisticated biological weapon was released in the United States. It killed five people, disfigured at...
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