"When crime lord Jimmy Nunzio is caught, knife in hand, over the body of his daughter's lover and his own archenemy, he turns to Mick McFarland to take up his defense. Usually the courtroom puppeteer, McFarland quickly finds himself at the end of Nunzio's strings. Struggling to find grounds for a not-guilty verdict on behalf of a well-known killer, Mick is hamstrung by Nunzio's refusal to tell him what really happened. On the other side of the law,...

The First Seminole War of 1816-1818 played a critical role in shaping how the United States demarcated its spatial and legal boundaries during the early years of the republic. Rooted in notions of American exceptionalism, manifest destiny, and racism, the legal framework that emerged from the war laid the groundwork for the Monroe Doctrine, the Dred Scott decision, and U.S. westward expansion over the course of the nineteenth century. When General...

Nauczyciel Bobby Nock zostaje oskarżony o uwiedzenie i zamordowanie swojej uczennicy, Jessiki Silver, dziedziczki miliardowej fortuny potentata na rynku nieruchomości. Werdykt ławy przysięgłych stanie się najbardziej sensacyjną częścią całego procesu. Nauczyciel zostaje uznany za niewinnego. Dziesięć lat później kręcony jest serial dokumentalny o tej sprawie. Ławnicy spotykają się ponownie, a jeden z nich twierdzi, że ma nowe dowody...

The firm: A brilliant and ambitious Harvard Law grad joins a small, prosperous law firm in Memphis, and is soon confronted by FBI agents with evidence of corruption and murder within the firm. The chamber: Adam Hall is an idealistic young attorney who takes on the death row clemency case of his one-time Klansman grandfather, Sam Cayhall. With just 28 days before the execution, Adam sets out to retrace the events leading to the crime for which Sam...

"Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life chronicles how local police and criminal justice systems intruded on gay individuals, criminalizing, profiling, surveilling, and prosecuting them from the 1930's through the 1960's. Anna Lvovsky details the progression of enforcement strategies through the targeting of gay-friendly bars by liquor boards, enticement of sexual overtures by plainclothes police decoys, and surveilling of...

When a hood's murder triggers a bloody gangland drug war, detective Remy McSwain is on the scene. He's a smooth-talkin' cop who fits right in with the easy style of Cajun country. Remy meets his match in Anne Osborne, a no-nonsense Assistant District Attorney in town to investigate police corruption. At odds with the moment they meet, their electrically charged attraction keeps the sparks flying.

""Tomlinson meshes local politics, college basketball, and the South in this wonderfully gritty crime novel you just can't put down."--Dave White, author of An Empty Hell ... Summer, 1994. Dean Goodnight, the first Choctaw Indian employed by the Oklahoma County public defender's office, pulls a new case--the brutal murder of a once-promising basketball star. The only witness is Caleb, the five-year-old son of the prime suspect, Billy. Investigating...