The Jailhouse Lawyer

The Jailhouse Lawyer
Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 513
Release: 2021-09-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0316280011

From James Patterson, the world's #1 bestselling author: a young lawyer takes on the judge who is destroying her hometown—and ends up in jail herself. In picture-perfect Erva, Alabama, the most serious crimes are misdemeanors. Speeding tickets. Shoplifting. Contempt of court. Then why is the jail so crowded? And why are so few prisoners released? There’s only one place to learn the truth behind these incriminating secrets. Sometimes the best education a lawyer can get is a short stretch of hard time.

Jailhouse Lawyers

Jailhouse Lawyers
Author: Mumia Abu-Jamal
Publisher: City Lights Books
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2020-09-18
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0872868176

“Expert and well-reasoned commentary on the justice system . . . His writings are dangerous.”—The Village Voice In Jailhouse Lawyers, award-winning journalist and death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal presents the stories and reflections of fellow prisoners-turned-advocates who have learned to use the court system to represent other prisoners—many uneducated or illiterate—and, in some cases, to win their freedom. In Abu-Jamal’s words, “This is the story of law learned, not in the ivory towers of multi-billion-dollar endowed universities [but] in the bowels of the slave-ship, in the dank dungeons of America.” Includes an introduction by Angela Y. Davis. Mumia Abu-Jamal’s books include Live From Death Row and Death Blossoms.

Law Man

Law Man
Author: Shon Hopwood
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 643
Release: 2012
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0307887839

Traces how the author, a Navy veteran, committed five bank robberies and spent years in prison before he rallied with the support of family and friends and learned savvy legal skills, allowing him to build a promising life as a free man.

Diary of a Jailhouse Lawyer

Diary of a Jailhouse Lawyer
Author: Tracy Green
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2016-11-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9781539897804

This is the story and thoughts of Federal prisoner, Donald D. Green, known to the streets of Buffalo, New York as the Infamous "Sly" Green. With numerous charges that are forcing him to serve 4 life terms plus 110 years, Green has become one of the best jailhouse lawyers- winning over 138 appeals cases for other prisoners. In his story, you will learn how he did it and how he struggles to do the same for himself.

Law Man

Law Man
Author: Shon Hopwood
Publisher:
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2017-10-02
Genre:
ISBN:

Shon Hopwood was a good kid from a good Nebraska family, a small-town basketball star, whose parents had started a local church. Few who knew him as a friendly teen would have imagined that, shortly after returning home from the Navy, he'd be adrift with few prospects and plotting to rob a bank. But he did, committing five armed bank robberies before being apprehended. Only twenty-three and potentially facing twelve years in a federal prison in Illinois, Shon feared his life was already over. He'd shamed himself, and his loving family and friends, and a part of him wanted to die. He wasn't sure at first if he'd survive the prison gangs, but slowly glimmers of hope appeared. He earned some respect on the prison basketball court, received a steady flow from hometown well-wishers, including a note from a special girl whom he'd thought too beautiful to ever pay him notice-and, most crucially, he secured a job in the prison law library. It was an assignment that would prove his salvation. Poring over the library's thick volumes, Shon discovered he had a knack for the law and he soon became the go-to guy for inmates seeking legal help. Then came a request to write a complex petition to the U.S. Supreme Court-a high-wire act of jailhouse lawyering that had not often met with success. By the time Shon walked out of prison, he'd pulled off a series of legal miracles, earned the undying gratitude of countless inmates, won the woman of his dreams, and built a new life for himself far greater than anything he could've imagined.A story that mixes moments of high adrenaline with moments of deep poignancy, Law Man is a powerful reminder that even the worst mistakes can be redeemed through faith, hard work, and the love and support of others. Email: [email protected]

The Defense Lawyer

The Defense Lawyer
Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2021-12-20
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0316494380

For more than a decade, criminal lawyer Barry Slotnick never lost a case, no matter how notorious or dangerous his clients—because everyone deserves the best defense. ​ Known for his sharp mind, sharp suits, and bold courtroom strategies, Bronx-native Barry Slotnick is known as the best criminal lawyer in the US. He calls himself “Liberty’s Last Champion.” Slotnick mediates Bette Midler’s bathhouse contract and represents John Gotti, “The Dapper Don.” He defends “Subway Shooter” Bernie Goetz and negotiates future First Lady Melania Trump’s pre-nup. His unparalleled legal brilliance defines a profession, a city—and an era.

The United States Jailhouse Lawyer's Manual 2012 Prisoner's Supplement

The United States Jailhouse Lawyer's Manual 2012 Prisoner's Supplement
Author: Esteban Rogelio Garcia
Publisher:
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2011-08-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781463460174

"Plea Bargaining has come to dominated the administration of justice in America." a quote from an article in the law journal by Timothy Lynch, PHD. Assistant Director of the CATO Institute's Project on Criminal Justice. It is a quote that is shared between crowded prisons and jails across America. It is a procedure which occurs every two seconds of any typical workday in America and it keeps our prisons overcrowded.

Juror #3

Juror #3
Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2018-09-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0316470066

A young attorney is defending her client in a racially charged felony case -- but in a town of old money and hidden secrets, her first trial may be her last in this #1 New York Times bestselling legal thriller. Ruby Bozarth, a newcomer to Rosedale, Mississippi, is also fresh to the State Bar -- and to the docket of Circuit Judge Baylor, who taps Ruby as defense counsel. 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 home after a career-ending injury, and she is determined to build a defense that will stick. She finds help in unexpected quarters from Suzanne, a hard-charging attorney armed to the teeth, and Shorty, a diner cook who knows more than he lets on. Ruby never belonged to the country club set, but once she nearly married into it. As news breaks of a second murder, Ruby's ex-fiancé shows up on her doorstep -- a Southern gentleman in need of a savior. As lurid, intertwining investigations unfold, no one in Rosedale can be trusted, especially the twelve men and women impaneled on the jury. They may be hiding the most incendiary secret of all.

Postmodern Criminology

Postmodern Criminology
Author: Dragan Milovanovic
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1997
Genre: Criminology
ISBN: 9780815324560

This collection of essays and reviews represents the most significant and comprehensive writing on Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors. Miola's edited work also features a comprehensive critical history, coupled with a full bibliography and photographs of major productions of the play from around the world. In the collection, there are five previously unpublished essays. The topics covered in these new essays are women in the play, the play's debt to contemporary theater, its critical and performance histories in Germany and Japan, the metrical variety of the play, and the distinctly modern perspective on the play as containing dark and disturbing elements. To compliment these new essays, the collection features significant scholarship and commentary on The Comedy of Errors that is published in obscure and difficulty accessible journals, newspapers, and other sources. This collection brings together these essays for the first time.

Criminal That I Am

Criminal That I Am
Author: Jennifer Ridha
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2015-05-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1476785740

“A gripping read, as fascinating as it is shocking” (New York Journal of Books) by a young lawyer who becomes romantically entangled with convicted drug felon Cameron Douglas—a page-turning journey through professional self-destruction and tabloid scandal to redemption. Criminal That I Am is a defense attorney’s account of the criminal justice system as seen through the prism of a particular case: her own. Jennifer Ridha was enlisted to serve as counsel to Cameron Douglas, the troubled but earnest son of film actor Michael Douglas, in a federal drug trafficking case. As media scrutiny and the pressures of Cameron’s case mount and as Jennifer becomes increasingly transfixed by her charismatic but troubled client, he asks her to do the unthinkable: commit a crime. In a decision inexplicable even to herself, guided only by her indignation and infatuation, she agrees. When her transgression is discovered, her criminal case begins, and her life as she knows it is over. Criminal That I Am, “an unflinching account...a juicy narrative that serves as a vehicle for reflecting on criminal behavior and the human inclination to transgress.” (Publishers Weekly), details Jennifer’s redemptive journey, beginning with her decision to commit a crime on behalf of a man she loved to the calamitous yet ultimately transformative consequences that came after. Recounted with brutal introspection and self-deprecating humor, this strange and twisted love story contemplates what we make of crime and punishment...and what it makes of us.