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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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2012
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The book that helped free an innocent man who had spent twenty-seven years on death row.
In January 1982, an elderly white widow was found brutally murdered in the small town of Greenwood, South Carolina. Police immediately arrested Edward Lee Elmore, a semiliterate, mentally retarded black man with no previous felony record. His only connection to the victim was having cleaned her gutters and windows, but barely ninety days after...
In January 1982, an elderly white widow was found brutally murdered in the small town of Greenwood, South Carolina. Police immediately arrested Edward Lee Elmore, a semiliterate, mentally retarded black man with no previous felony record. His only connection to the victim was having cleaned her gutters and windows, but barely ninety days after...
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Full Courtroom Press takes the reader behind-the-scenes and into the mind of former combat Marine and current Boston civil trial lawyer, Mike Lyons, as he plans and strategizes to meet the challenges of two dramatic cases. The powerful force of shame keeps both clients from being forthright with Mike, creating tension and obstacles during each trial. Mike educates the reader about how to win in a courtroom.
This book is both entertaining and enriching....
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If you like courtroom drama, these cases read like finely-crafted short stories, each laid out to create tension and capture the reader. This is Mr. Katz's autobiographical anthology of court cases he selected from a legal career that spanned over forty years. He was an assistant district attorney, a public defender, an insurance defense attorney, and a civil plaintive in Louisiana state and federal courts and in state courts in Colorado.
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Sobre el contenido de este trabajo tan sólo dos palabras… se trata de una reflexión muy gremial propia de los teóricos del Derecho, pues pretende dilucidar si las normas que forman un ordenamiento jurídico son de una sola clase o si pertenecen a dos categorías distintas, las normas o reglas y los principios, y, en tal caso, en qué se diferencian o para qué sirven unas y otros… deseo aclarar que no se trata de ninguna disputa estrechamente...
7) The fraud
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2023.
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"It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper-and cousin by marriage-of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs. Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, this life and the next. But she is also sceptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his successful friend, Mr. Charles Dickens, of being a bully...
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Este libro está compuesto por una serie de trabajos que, de manera conjunta, proponen la necesidad de construir una Teoría de la Prueba judicial a partir de dos condiciones.
En primer lugar, esta debe estar constituida desde los hechos y los problemas planteados por éstos, y no desde las normas, esto es, que no se limite a ver los problemas de prueba como problemas de interpretación de las normas jurídicas que regulen la actividad probatoria....
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Este libro presenta el debate normativo actual entre algunos de los diferentes modelos más relevantes en ciencia jurídica: la disciplina que tiene como objetivo establecer cuál es el contenido de los diferentes derechos.
El volumen se abre con un ensayo introductorio de Álvaro Núñez que pretende responder qué es la ciencia jurídica para, después, aclarar el tipo de desacuerdos que tienen las diferentes doctrinas (o ideologías) de la ciencia...
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Este manual ofrece pistas y técnicas para construir y sustentar una argumentación jurídica convincente y también para incitar a los juristas a no descuidar y descartar el valor del método en sus trabajos. Uno de sus objetivos es demostrar el valor agregado del uso de un método -en especial, del método que el autor plantea- durante un trabajo jurídico.
La primera parte del libro se dedica, por tanto, a la presentación de algunas técnicas...
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"Winner of the 2011 C. Herman Pritchett Award, Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association" "Winner of the 2011 Gladys M. Kammerer Award, American Political Science Association" Sean Farhang is assistant professor in the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley.
Of the 1.65 million lawsuits enforcing federal laws over the past decade, 3 percent were prosecuted by the federal government, while...
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La ponderación se ha convertido en el tópico de nuestro tiempo y punto de debates en torno a las concepciones del Derecho, los derechos y la justicia. Precisamente, teniendo como marco el escenario continental europeo, los profesores Manuel Atienza y Juan Antonio García Amado emprenden un "combate dialéctico 'cuerpo a cuerpo'" que, a partir del trabajo de uno de los autores, va tomando forma epistolar.
Se trata de un debate fundamental para comprender...
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Examines the life of Patty Hearst who suffered an unimaginable trauma and then made the stunning decision to join her captors' crusade.
On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, a sophomore in college and heiress to the Hearst family fortune, was kidnapped by a ragtag group of self-styled revolutionaries calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army. The already sensational story took the first of many incredible twists when the group released a tape of...
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The world's most popular thriller writer presents the definitive, never before told account of the Aaron Hernandez case. Everyone thought they knew Aaron Hernandez. He was an NFL star who made the game of football look easy. Until he became the prime suspect in a gruesome murder. But who was Aaron Hernandez, really? Rich with in-depth, on-the-ground investigative reporting that gives readers a front row seat to Hernandez's tumultuous downward spiral,...
16) John Adams under fire: the Founding Father's fight for justice in the Boston Massacre murder trial
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History remembers John Adams as a Founding Father and our country's second president. But in the tense years before the American Revolution, he was still just a lawyer, fighting for justice in one of the most explosive murder trials of the era. On the night of March 5, 1770, shots were fired by British soldiers on the streets of Boston, killing five civilians. The Boston Massacre has often been called the first shots of the American Revolution. As...
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A searing anatomy of a New Orleans murder trial and a system of justice gone wrong.
In a New Orleans supermarket parking lot in the fall of 1984 ,two disparate lives become inextricably bound for the next fourteen years. The first, the life of Delores Dye, a white housewife and grandmother. The second, a young black man with a gun in hand. Moments following their maybe not so chance encounter, Mrs. Dye lay dead on the sunbaked macadam, and the killer...
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McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
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[2018].
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George Burnett found himself at the center of a football scandal when he overheard a phone conversation between University of Georgia athletic director Wally Butts and University of Alabama football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant. Referencing more than 3,000 pages of letters, depositions and trial transcripts, the author reveals new information about this scandal and its resulting trial.
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W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
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[2021]
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First edition.
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"Despite her famous pseudonym, no one knows the truth about 'Jane Roe,' Norma McCorvey (1947-2017), whose unwanted pregnancy in 1970 opened a great fracture in American life. Journalist Joshua Prager spent years with Norma, discovered her personal papers, a previously unseen trove, and witnessed her final moments. With an explosive revelation at the core of the case, he tells her full story for the first time. Prager also traces Roe's fifty-year trajectory...
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