Court Of Last Resort

Author : Matthew J. Flynn
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Court of Last Resort written by Matthew J. Flynn and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Erle Stanley Gardner
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504043456
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Court of Last Resort written by Erle Stanley Gardner and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Carol A. B. Warren
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226873893
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Court of Last Resort written by Carol A. B. Warren and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1984-08 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Court of Last Resort looks at decision making in a mental-health court and at the dilemmas of treating mental illness while protecting patients' legal rights. Carol Warren spent seven years studying hearings in a large California court where people who had been involuntarily committed to institutions for psychiatric treatment could petition for their release. In this book she confronts questions of whether mental illness is real or only a label for societal control, whether the government should be involved in committing the deviant to institutions, and how the interaction of judges, psychiatrists, families, police, and other individuals and agencies affect the court's administration of mental-health law. Though the cases in this book fall under California's Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, Warren's analysis of conflicts between legal and medical models of behavior is of national and international importance both to sociologists and to the many professionals who work at the juncture of mental health and the law.

Author : Norma Watkins
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1604739789
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Resort written by Norma Watkins and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2011-05-09 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing all decisions of general interest decided in the courts of last resort of the several states [1869-1887].

Author : Edmund Samson Green
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1622 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Digest of the Decisions of the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States from 1887 to [1911] Contained in the American State Reports : Volumes 1 to [140] Inclusive, and of the Notes to the Cases Reported Therein: Abandonment to youthful servants. Supplement containing index to all notes to cases reported in volumes 1 to 140 inclusive written by Edmund Samson Green and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edmund Samson Green
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1498 pages
Book Rating : 4.4K/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Digest of the Decisions of the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States from 1887 to [1911] written by Edmund Samson Green and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edmund Samson Green
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1480 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Digest of the Decisions of the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States from 1887 to [1911] Contained in the American State Reports : Volumes 1 to [140] Inclusive, and of the Notes to the Cases Reported Therein: Abandonment to Eviction written by Edmund Samson Green and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Erle Stanley Gardner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Court of Last Resort written by Erle Stanley Gardner and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stewart Rapalje
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1262 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Digest of the Decisions of the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States written by Stewart Rapalje and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 1262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: