The Legal Killer

Author : Elliot Mason
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1662425104
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Legal Killer written by Elliot Mason and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-05-12 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An hour north of Los Angeles, a gruesome discovery is made. Displayed in a very unusual manner is the body of a young promising assistant US attorney. Left next to her corpse is a cryptic note, "Find Des Cook, University of Georgia. He has the answers." Two thousand miles away, unassuming graduate student Desmond Cook receives an unexpected visit from the FBI. They pepper him with questions. Bewildered, he has no answers. Soon afterward, the killer contacts him with a task-figure out a series of historical riddles and get to the locations they designate. Failure to do so will result in more victims. Demanding to know why he is made the focus of such a game, the killer has just one response: "You have the answers. It's all in the presentation." Thus begins a deadly chase, as Des teams with FBI profiler Amanda Hertzel in a desperate attempt to solve the baffling clues and put a halt to the carnage. And in this race against time, as each layer of the mystery is peeled away, the killer's motivation becomes clearer, finally exposing a far more deadly conspiracy than they could have ever imagined.

Author : Jim Potts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781645480358
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Defending a Serial Killer written by Jim Potts and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fifth and Sixth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States guarantee the right against self-incrimination, the right to remain silent, and the right to counsel. A crime wave swept California in the late 1970s. Several young girls were abducted, raped, and murdered. Michael Dee Mattson was convicted of these crimes and sentenced to death. Law clerk by day, family man by night. In 1982, Jim Potts--a brilliant, idealistic, African American law student--is honored when one of his professors recruits him to assist in writing a death penalty appeal on behalf of a serial killer. Potts discovers a loophole in the case that had somehow been overlooked. One that could not only get Mattson off death row, but once presented to the Supreme Court of California, could release him to rape and murder again. When Potts confides in his pregnant wife, she says if Mattson goes free, their marriage is over. But if Potts quits the case, or withholds information, he violates his duty to client and Constitution and risks his career before it even begins. A moral dilemma with no good way out. To avoid losing his family and releasing pure evil back into the world, Potts must be smarter than his options. He must find a way to keep his family together, fulfill his duties, and keep Mattson behind bars. But can he?

Author : Alexander McGregor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781845025632
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Law Killers written by Alexander McGregor and published by . This book was released on with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sarah Tarlow
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319779087
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse written by Sarah Tarlow and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book is the culmination of many years of research on what happened to the bodies of executed criminals in the past. Focusing on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it looks at the consequences of the 1752 Murder Act. These criminal bodies had a crucial role in the history of medicine, and the history of crime, and great symbolic resonance in literature and popular culture. Starting with a consideration of the criminal corpse in the medieval and early modern periods, chapters go on to review the histories of criminal justice, of medical history and of gibbeting under the Murder Act, and ends with some discussion of the afterlives of the corpse, in literature, folklore and in contemporary medical ethics. Using sophisticated insights from cultural history, archaeology, literature, philosophy and ethics as well as medical and crime history, this book is a uniquely interdisciplinary take on a fascinating historical phenomenon.

Author : Samuel H. Pillsbury
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 081476875X
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Judging Evil written by Samuel H. Pillsbury and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2000-07-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do killers deserve punishment? How should the law decide? These are the questions Samuel H. Pillsbury seeks to answer in this important new book on the theory and practice of criminal responsibility. In an argument both traditional and fresh, Pillsbury holds that persons deserve punishment according to the evil they choose to do, regardless of their psychological capacities. Using real case examples, he offers concrete proposals for legal reform, urging that modern preoccupations with subjective aspects of wrongdoing be replaced with rules that focus more on the individual's motives.

Author : Charles Patrick Ewing
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190296089
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Insanity written by Charles Patrick Ewing and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The insanity defense is one of the oldest fixtures of the Anglo-American legal tradition. Though it is available to people charged with virtually any crime, and is often employed without controversy, homicide defendants who raise the insanity defense are often viewed by the public and even the legal system as trying to get away with murder. Often it seems that legal result of an insanity defense is unpredictable, and is determined not by the defendants mental state, but by their lawyers and psychologists influence. From the thousands of murder cases in which defendants have claimed insanity, Doctor Ewing has chosen ten of the most influential and widely varied. Some were successful in their insanity plea, while others were rejected. Some of the defendants remain household names years after the fact, like Jack Ruby, while others were never nationally publicized. Regardless of the circumstances, each case considered here was extremely controversial, hotly contested, and relied heavily on lengthy testimony by expert psychologists and psychiatrists. Several of them played a major role in shaping the criminal justice system as we know it today. In this book, Ewing skillfully conveys the psychological and legal drama of each case, while providing important and fresh professional insights. For the legal or psychological professional, as well as the interested reader, Insanity will take you into the minds of some of the most incomprehensible murderers of our age.

Author : Martin Clancy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1616146486
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murder at the Supreme Court written by Martin Clancy and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a unique behind the scenes look at the capital punishment cases that made it to the highest court in the land.

Author : John E. Douglas
Publisher : Kensington Books
ISBN 13 : 078602884X
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law & Disorder written by John E. Douglas and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling authors of "Mindhunter" comes an explosive look at how a high-profile murder case can test the limits of even the most seasoned investigator. Written by a 25-year vet of the FBI and an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker.

Author : Nicholas Pileggi
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982129905
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wiseguy written by Nicholas Pileggi and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicholas Pileggi’s vivid, unvarnished, journalistic chronicle of the life of Henry Hill—the working-class Brooklyn kid who knew from age twelve that “to be a wiseguy was to own the world,” who grew up to live the highs and lows of the mafia gangster’s life—has been hailed as “the best book ever written on organized crime” (Cosmopolitan). This is the true-crime bestseller that was the basis for Martin Scorsese’s film masterpiece GoodFellas, which brought to life the violence, the excess, the families, the wives and girlfriends, the drugs, the payoffs, the paybacks, the jail time, and the Feds…with Henry Hill’s crackling narration drawn straight out of Wiseguy and overseeing all the unforgettable action. “Nonstop...absolutely engrossing” (The New York Times Book Review). Read it and experience the secret life inside the mob—from one who’s lived it.

Author : Louis Begley
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0553392441
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Killer, Come Hither written by Louis Begley and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A taut thriller that takes readers from the office suites of Manhattan to the tidy elegance of Sag Harbor and the rough-and-tumble western plains of Brazil. “Fans of Lee Child’s Jack Reacher should enjoy Jack Dana’s adventures.”—Publishers Weekly Jack Dana, a star student at Yale, joins the military after 9/11—only to have sniper fire cut short his career as a Marine Corps infantry officer. While recovering at Walter Reed Hospital, he begins to write a novel about his wartime experience. Jack’s uncle Harry, a surrogate father to him, as well as a partner at a leading New York law firm, helps Jack secure a publisher. Jack is thrilled when his book becomes a huge success, but after a celebratory trip to South America, Jack returns home to shocking news: Uncle Harry is dead, found hanged in his summer home. Horrified and incredulous, Jack digs into the facts surrounding the tragedy and comes to believe that his uncle’s death was no suicide. Delays of law are not for Jack, so he takes matters into his own hands—embarking on a dangerous journey of justice and revenge. Look for all of Louis Begley’s gripping Jack Dana thrillers: KILLER, COME HITHER • KILL AND BE KILLED • KILLER’S CHOICE