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| Author | : Erle Stanley Gardner |
| Publisher | : Open Road Media |
| Total Pages | : 269 |
| Release | : 2017-04-11 |
| Genre | : True Crime |
| ISBN | : 1504043456 |
Edgar Award Winner: True stories of miscarriages of justice, legal battles, and landmark reversals, by the creator of Perry Mason. In 1945, Erle Stanley Gardner, noted attorney and author of the popular Perry Mason mysteries, was contacted by an overwhelmed California public defender who believed his doomed client was innocent. William Marvin Lindley had been convicted of the rape and murder of a young girl along the banks of the Yuba River, and was awaiting execution at San Quentin. After reviewing the case, Gardner agreed to help—it seemed the fate of the “Red-Headed Killer” hinged on the testimony of a colorblind witness. Gardner’s intervention sparked the Court of Last Resort. The Innocence Project of its day, this ambitious and ultimately successful undertaking was devoted to investigating, reviewing, and reversing wrongful convictions owing to poor legal representation, prosecutorial abuses, biased police activity, bench corruption, unreliable witnesses, and careless forensic-evidence testimony. The crimes: rape, murder, kidnapping, and manslaughter. The prisoners: underprivileged and vulnerable men wrongly convicted and condemned to life sentences or death row with only one hope—the devotion of Erle Stanley Gardner and the Court of Last Resort. Featuring Gardner’s most damning cases of injustice from across the country, The Court of Last Resort won the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime. Originating as a monthly column in Argosy magazine, it was produced as a dramatized court TV show for NBC.
| Author | : Matthew J. Flynn |
| Publisher | : Speaking Volumes |
| Total Pages | : 246 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
Federal Judge Adam Willow, a former Marine commando, demands perfect justice. Some defendants are acquitted by juries in his Chicago courtroom, but none survive. Set in Chicago in the late 1980's and early '90s, the commando Judge takes matters into his own hands. He starts when he is left alone with a defendant who has escaped justice, and in a moment of pure impulse, he kills the man. Emboldened by the experience, he goes on to murder more defendants. But when he kills a corrupt Supreme Court Justice, and an innocent man is put on trial for the murder, Judge Willow faces a crisis of conscience. He tries to save the defendant, but he fails. His law clerk, a beautiful Asian woman with whom he is having an affair, tries to soothe him. But in the end, the Judge must sit in trial on himself in the Court of Last Resort.
| Author | : Norma Watkins |
| Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
| Total Pages | : 309 |
| Release | : 2011-05-09 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1604739789 |
Raised under the racial segregation that kept her family's southern country hotel afloat, Norma Watkins grows up listening at doors, trying to penetrate the secrets and silences of the black help and of her parents' marriage. Groomed to be an ornament to white patriarchy, she sees herself failing at the ideal of becoming a southern lady. The Last Resort, her compelling memoir, begins in childhood at Allison's Wells, a popular Mississippi spa for proper white people, run by her aunt. Life at the rambling hotel seems like paradise. Yet young Norma wonders at a caste system that has colored people cooking every meal while forbidding their sitting with whites to eat. Once integration is court-mandated, her beloved father becomes a stalwart captain in defense of Jim Crow as a counselor to fiery, segregationist Governor Ross Barnett. His daughter flounders, looking for escape. A fine house, wonderful children, and a successful husband do not compensate for the shock of Mississippi's brutal response to change, daily made manifest by the men in her home. A sexually bleak marriage only emphasizes a growing emotional emptiness. When a civil rights lawyer offers love and escape, does a good southern lady dare leave her home state and closed society behind? With humor and heartbreak, The Last Resort conveys at once the idyllic charm and the impossible compromises of a lost way of life.
| Author | : Keith Hawkins |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 512 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Electronic books |
| ISBN | : 9780199243891 |
This book analyses the attrition of cases by studying decisions made about their creation, handling, disposal, and prosecution."--BOOK JACKET
| Author | : Edmund Samson Green |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 1622 |
| Release | : 1912 |
| Genre | : Law reports, digests, etc |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Edmund Samson Green |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 1480 |
| Release | : 1904 |
| Genre | : Law reports, digests, etc |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Edmund Samson Green |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 1480 |
| Release | : 1904 |
| Genre | : Law reports, digests, etc |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Council of State Governments |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 184 |
| Release | : 1950 |
| Genre | : Courts |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Jonathan White |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2020-01-13 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0198791720 |
Prominent in the EU's recent transformations has been the tendency to advance extraordinary measures in the name of crisis response. From emergency lending to macro-economics, border management to Brexit, policies are pursued unconventionally and as measures of last resort. This book investigates the nature, rise, and implications of this politics of emergency as it appears in the transnational setting. As the author argues, recourse to this method of rule is an expression of the deeper weakness of executive power in today's Europe. It is how policy-makers contend with rising socio-economic power and diminishing representative ties, seeking fall-back authority in the management of crises. In the structure of the EU they find incentives and few impediments. Whereas political exceptionalism tends to be associated with sovereign power, here it is power's diffusion and functional disaggregation that spurs politics in the emergency mode. The effect of these governing patterns is not just to challenge and reshape ideas of EU legitimacy rooted in constitutionalism and technocracy. The politics of emergency fosters a counter-politics in its mirror image, as populists and others play with themes of necessity and claim the right to disobedience in extremis. The book examines the prospects for democracy once the politics of emergency takes hold, and what it might mean to put transnational politics on a different footing.
| Author | : William Mack |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 1368 |
| Release | : 1892 |
| Genre | : Law reports, digests, etc |
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