Capital Punishment on Trial: Furman v. Georgia and the Death Penalty in Modern America (Landmark Law Cases and American Society) Review
Monday, August 30, 2010
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Saturday, August 28, 2010
Great Price The Innocence Commission: Preventing Wrongful Convictions and Restoring the Criminal Justice System
The Innocence Commission: Preventing Wrongful Convictions and Restoring the Criminal Justice System Review
If you have any interest in how to reform our enormous but unpopular problem of Prosecutorial, Police and Judicial misconduct, you must read this book
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DNA testing and advances in forensic science have shaken the foundations of the U.S. criminal justice system. One of the most visible results is the exoneration of inmates who were wrongly convicted and incarcerated, many of them sentenced to death for crimes they did not commit. This has caused a quandary for many states: how can claims of innocence be properly investigated and how can innocent inmates be reliably distinguished from the guilty? In answer, some states have created "innocence commissions" to establish policies and provide legal assistance to the improperly imprisoned.
The Innocence Commission describes the creation and first years of the Innocence Commission for Virginia (ICVA), the second innocence commission in the nation and the first to conduct a systematic inquiry into all cases of wrongful conviction. Written by Jon B. Gould, the Chair of the ICVA, who is a professor of justice studies and an attorney, the author focuses on twelve wrongful conviction cases to show how and why wrongful convictions occur, what steps legal and state advocates took to investigate the convictions, how these prisoners were ultimately freed, and what lessons can be learned from their experiences.
Gould recounts how a small band of attorneys and other advocates — in Virginia and around the country — have fought wrongful convictions in court, advanced the subject of wrongful convictions in the media, and sought to remedy the issue of wrongful convictions in the political arena. He makes a strong case for the need for Innocence Commissions in every state, showing that not only do Innocence Commissions help to identify weaknesses in the criminal justice system and offer workable improvements, but also protect society by helping to ensure that actual perpetrators are expeditiously identified, arrested, and brought to trial. Everyone has an interest in preventing wrongful convictions, from police officers and prosecutors, who seek the latest and best investigative techniques, to taxpayers, who want an efficient criminal justice system, to suspects who are erroneously pursued and sometimes convicted.
Free of legal jargon and written for a general audience, The Innocence Commission is instructive, informative, and highly compelling reading.
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Friday, August 27, 2010
Check Out Guiding Those Left Behind in Arizona: Settling the Affairs of Your Loved One for $35.00
Guiding Those Left Behind in Arizona: Settling the Affairs of Your Loved One Review
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Legal and practical things you need to do to settle and estate in Arizona, and how to arrange your affairs to avoid unneccesary cost to your family.
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Thursday, August 26, 2010
Great Price Sudden Death
Sudden Death Review
Having been introduced to this series by fellow Amazon Vine Program reviewer Michael A. Newman, Sudden Death is the fourth of David Rosenfelt's Andy Carpenter series legal thrillers that I have read. Like Open and Shut (1st), First Degree (2nd) and Bury the Lead (3rd), this book has a familiar cast of characters.
Andy is a 31-year old defense lawyer who inherited million from his father. Laurie Collins is a former police officer turned private investigator and the love of Andy's life. Kevin Randall is a nervous hypochondriac and Andy's outstanding law associate who also provides free legal advice at his Law-dromat. Sam Willis is his accountant and accomplished computer hacker. Marcus Clark is Laurie's friend, as well as, a frightening unorthodox and effective investigator and body guard. Willie Miller is a wealthy Afro-American who is a Black Belt in Karate and CEO of the Tara Foundation--a non-for-profit business owned by Andy and Willie that places formerly unwanted dogs with deserving clients. Andy's Golden Retriever, Tara, is its namesake.
The story begins with Andy and Willie in California discussing their story with screenwriter Adam Strickland and quickly changes scenes to Northern New Jersey where New York Giants Quarterback, Kenny Schilling's estate is surrounded by police who he holds at bay while Jets Wide Receiver, Troy Preston lies in Kenny's closet, dead from a gun-shot wound through his chest.
Andy intervenes talking Schilling down and representing him in another high profile and impossible case. Defecting blame, Andy provides a false lead to an eager reporter mentioning a mafia figure's name thus exposing his self to deadly retaliation. Bodies mount and the story takes twists and turns that keep readers rapidly flipping pages to the book's exciting conclusion.
I am hooked by the Andy Carpenter series and recommend this fun read to those who might enjoy chuckling through the author's self-denigrating humor and entralling legal thriller that can be read in a few hours.
The 5th in this series, Dead Center is idling on my Amazon Kindle as we speak!
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- David Rosenfelt's previous novel. "Bury the Lead, was published in Mysterious Press hardcover in 6/04, and was a "Today show Book Club Pick chosen by Janet Evanovich.- "First Degree (Mysterious Press, 5/03) won raves from national publications, including "Entertainment Weekly, and starred reviews from both "Kirkus Reviews and "Publishers Weekly.- The author's debut novel. "Open and Shut (Mysterious Press, 2002), was nominated for an Edgar Award for Best First Novel and was praised in the "New York Times.- David Rosenfelt's previous three books were Featured Alternates of The Mystery Guild," with foreign rights sold in Bulgaria, France, Germany, and Japan.
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Check Out Staying Wealthy: Strategies for Protecting Your Assets (Bloomberg Personal Bookshelf (Hardcover)) for $1.35
Staying Wealthy: Strategies for Protecting Your Assets (Bloomberg Personal Bookshelf (Hardcover)) Review
Brian takes you step-by-step through the most basic estate planning to the most intricate. This book should be in every household throughout America. A must read and an excellent book to refer back to from time to time. Well worth the $$$!!!
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This is the most accessible consumer book ever to address the question, "How can I enjoy and pass to my heirs more of what I'm working a lifetime to accumulate?" This book initiates consumers into the fast-growing specialty of wealth preservation. Breuel's three decades of experience in giving people more control over their wealth is evident in the power and simplicity of his advice.
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Sunday, August 22, 2010
Great Price Partners In Evil: The Shocking True Story of a Fantasy Turned Deadly
Partners In Evil: The Shocking True Story of a Fantasy Turned Deadly Review
I don't understand the negative reviews of this book at all. I've been a voracious true crime reader for over a decade and I am as certain to enjoy a Steve Jackson book as I am Ann Rule. I consider him the crime writer for Colorado as Ann Rule is for the Pacific Northwest. This book does a great job of detailing the characters involved and is sensitive to the victim. Yes, the crime was solved right away, but that doesn't make understanding why they did it and the events leading up to it and afterwards any less interesting. I enjoyed every page of it and look forward to everything else Steve Jackson writes in the future. Definately worth it for true crime lovers!
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Saturday, August 21, 2010
Check Out The Ten Biggest Legal Mistakes Women Can Avoid : How to Protect Yourself, Your Children and Your Assets (Capital Ideas) for $14.95
The Ten Biggest Legal Mistakes Women Can Avoid : How to Protect Yourself, Your Children and Your Assets (Capital Ideas) Review
This is a great book! Being a young, modern and relatively "hip" married woman (one who now co-ownes a business with her husband), I decided it was time to educate myself about all the legal stuff I'd been ignoring for years. I was especially intrigued by the author's approach to the legal aspects of marriage/children, property and taxes. These were topics I would not typically view in a "legal" light (hey, my husband handles the legal stuff), and I would certainly never have considered myself at legal risk. Reading this book really opened my eyes about where I stand as far as the law is concerned - Whaddyaknow, I'm considered a responsible, accountable adult! While this may seem like a no-brainer, the stories and information in this book really brought it home that I had better step up and take responsibility for myself. Thanks to this book I now have a clear understanding of the potential legal and financial hazards to which I may be exposed, and I also have the tools to avoid those dangers and make sound decisions that will protect my family from legal and/or financial peril. This is a truly informative and helpful book.
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Women are amazingly adept at multi-tasking, balancing home and work and relationships, managing finances, and generally learning whatever is needed to get the job done or to take care of things. Why then do we get ourselves into avoidable legal messes? During Marilyn Barrett s more than twenty years of practicing law, she has found that women of all socioeconomic and educational levels consistently make certain mistakes that land them in an attorney s office. These legal messes can devastate them economically and emotionally, and make them desperate. This book describes - in plain, non-legalese language - the basic preventative measures women can take to avoid the following legal pitfalls when they fail to protect themselves and their children in - Legal title to property - Prenuptial agreements -Marriage and divorce - Starting and running a business -Paying taxes - Estate planning, and - Hiring attorneys. A comprehensive appendix of sample documents provides added protection. By using plain English and focusing on the general information women need to know, and telling women s stories that show how easy it is to get into a bad situation, Ms. Barrett becomes a pocket attorney for all women. The book has been endorsed by Senator Dianne Feinstein.
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Thursday, August 19, 2010
Check Out Child Protectors; Politics and the Death of Children for $14.99
Child Protectors; Politics and the Death of Children Review
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Eddie Gibson Child Protectors: Politics & Dead Children is a fictional and unforgettable story of a young girl victimized by child abuse and murder, as well as a foster care system that is failing the children and leaving them unprotectived.
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Check Out When the Husband is the Suspect for $3.93
When the Husband is the Suspect Review
F. Lee Bailey is one of the best-known trial lawyers in America. His conviction rate in his murder trials was a low 4% compared to the national rate of over 90%. The twenty cases in this book range from the innocent to the guilty. When a wife is killed the husband becomes the first suspect (`Preface'). When the husband is found innocent many people still assume guilt. Most people are murdered by someone they know, women are murdered by husbands, ex-husbands, or boyfriends. Guns are the weapon of choice (p.8). Neither the media or the investigators are ever embarrassed in wrongly suspecting the husband.
Some of these twenty cases are more famous than the others (`Contents'). A missing person (like Jennifer Wilbanks) can create a media frenzy in blaming her boyfriend (John Mason). Its as if the media wants to create interest to attract viewers. [That classic play "The Front Page" can be a tutorial about the media.] This book shows how a messy and infuriating divorce is always better that a murder trial (p.205). Bailey's advice to any man whose wife is murdered is to immediately get the best lawyer so you can avoid an indictment and save a lot of grief, embarrassment, and a trial. Beware of giving a false alibi! If you are acquitted a large segment of the population will think you were guilty but got away with it.
There is no index and no pictures in this concise summary of the cases. Bailey's comments alone make this a very interesting read. His earlier book "The Defense Never Rests" is better reading. The twenty "Suspects" are discussed on 258 pages. There names are: Dr. Sam Sheppard, Dr. Carl Coppolino, Dr. Jeffrey Macdonald, Claus Von Bülow, Dr. Robert Bierenbaum, Steven Sherer, O. J. Simpson, Rabbi Fred Neulander, Mark Winger, Allen Blackthorne, Michael Schiano, James "Jeff" Cahill, Rae Carruth, Kenneth Fitzhugh, Richard Sharpe, Robert Blake, Michael Peterson, Scott Peterson, Mark Hacking, and John Mason.
The OJ Simpson Trial is the best known. Page 93 does not mention the couple that found the body around 11:45pm. A report said the grand jury was dismissed because they would not indict OJ on the evidence (p.97). The limo driver's testimony led to a `not guilty' verdict (p.102). The author points out the other connected murders (p.103). Bailey explains the "low-speed chase" (p.105). The media created a bias of guilt similar to Dr. Sam Sheppard. Bailey says there is a lower quality to reporters today, unlike Dorothy Kilgallen (p.106). [What caused that?] Bailey challenges the reader to consider four points: the `time line' , the demeanor, the interrogation, and the trial testimony (pp.107-110). The jury was shielded from the nonsense in the press. Bailey said the defense chose to hold back significant evidence (p.110).
[Was this trial over-publicized to distract Americans from the job losses from NAFTA?]
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From the bestselling author of The Defense Never Rests, a look at the modern spate of spousal homicides. This book provides an overview of several of the most famous homicidal husband cases of recent years, including:
- Sam Sheppard, who inspired the TV series and movie The Fugitive
- Jeffrey McDonald, who became the subject of the bestseller Fatal Vision
- Mister Perfect, Brad Cunningham, who was convicted of bludgeoning his wife to death
- Michael Peterson, who was the subject of the IFC documentary series The Staircase and a Lifetime movie original starring Treat Williams
- OJ Simpson, whose dream team of lawyers defended the former pro-football player and movie star of the brutal murder of his ex-wife as the entire nation watched
- Claus von Bulow, immortalized in the book and movie Reversal of Fortune
- Robert Blake, former TV star, who was suspected of engineering the death of his conwoman wife
- Scott Peterson, a philandering sociopathic husband who almost escaped arrest for the murder of his wife and unborn child.
- Lambert "Bart" Knol, who claimed he suffered from "substance-induced persistent amnesia" when he was accused of killing his wife of 38 years
These cases and others are presented in an objective manner by a knowledgeable voice that recognizes that suspicion, and sometimes even conviction, are not always synonymous with guilt.
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From the bestselling author of The Defense Never Rests, a look at the modern spate of spousal homicides.
This book provides an overview of several of the most famous homicidal husband cases of recent years, including:
- Sam Sheppard, who inspired the TV series and movie The Fugitive
- Jeffrey McDonald, who became the subject of the bestseller Fatal Vision
- Mister Perfect, Brad Cunningham, who was convicted of bludgeoning his wife to death
- Michael Peterson, who was the subject of the IFC documentary series The Staircase and a Lifetime movie original starring Treat Williams
- OJ Simpson, whose dream team of lawyers defended the former pro-football player and movie star of the brutal murder of his ex-wife as the entire nation watched
- Claus von Bulow, immortalized in the book and movie Reversal of Fortune
- Robert Blake, former TV star, who was suspected of engineering the death of his conwoman wife
- Scott Peterson, a philandering sociopathic husband who almost escaped arrest for the murder of his wife and unborn child.
- Lambert "Bart" Knol, who claimed he suffered from "substance-induced persistent amnesia" when he was accused of killing his wife of 38 years
These cases and others are presented in an objective manner by a knowledgeable voice that recognizes that suspicion, and sometimes even conviction, are not always synonymous with guilt.
Monday, August 16, 2010
Check Out David Ball on Damages--The Essential Update: A Plantiff's Attorney's Guide for Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Cases (n/a)
David Ball on Damages--The Essential Update: A Plantiff's Attorney's Guide for Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Cases (n/a) Review
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This practical book provides step-by-step guidance for attorneys seeking money for their clients. Ball explains why jurors give, why they do not, and how to motivate them to do the former instead of the latter. He walks readers through voir dire, opening, testimony, and closing, providing practical, effective, and innovative methods for pursuing damages. Ball includes methods to contend with the way today’s jurors view lawyers and their clients. The techniques provide tools to counter sophisticated opposition tactics, the public mood, and laws and rules that continue to grow more hostile.
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Saturday, August 14, 2010
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Gripping from page one, the intensity of this story is matched only by the characters' unrelenting drive for the truth. Kit and Sonny race the clock for evidence, uncovering a police force decaying from corruption and a city collapsing under its own injustice.
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Thursday, August 12, 2010
Check Out Detour To Death Row for $12.01
Detour To Death Row Review
This is a very readable book that explores one man's journey from corporate person to abolitionist and speaker of truth in an environment hostile to the principles of non-violence and respect for the dignity of every human being. Dave shares his vision, his faith, and his experience earned by many years of fighting the death penalty in Texas. He and his ministry are models of spiritually-based social activism for everyone who advocates for restorative justice in our system of criminal justice. The book is an important addition to the debate on the death penalty in the state of Texas and across the nation.
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Since 1982, more than 400 executions have taken place in Texas. No other state in the nation executes its citizens like Texas, a state that clearly has a love affair with the death penalty. Detour to Death Row is the story of David Atwood ?a retired oil company engineer, committed Christian, student of nonviolence and tireless activist?and his 15-year effort to abolish the death penalty in Texas. It is also the story of the people he met on his journey: men and women on death row, their families, the families of the victims, and fellow death penalty activists across the globe. It is the story of a failed system of retribution and a story of hope that there is a better way of justice.
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Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Check Out The Deadly Groom: An Ohio-Arkansas True Crime Saga for $22.71
The Deadly Groom: An Ohio-Arkansas True Crime Saga Review
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The Deadly Groom is the compelling true crime saga of the slaying of Marcia Good, a vivacious 40-year-old widowed mother of three, by her second husband, Richard Bennett, who viewed her modest estate as a cash cow. At first, Bennett was able to convince authorities and even Marcia's relatives that her drowning death was a tragic fishing accident in a fall from a partially built bridge over the Arkansas River on a cold, windy, rainy night. It would be another 17 years before her case was closed officially when Bennett died in prison while serving a life sentence for first degree murder. He might have gotten away completely without the efforts of Marcia's brother-in-law, Dr. Lowell Good, who hired his own investigators, and her nephew, David Zoll, who successfully fought a civil wrongful death suit against Bennett. It also took the tenacious work of Arkansas State Police Investigator Doug Stephens, who worked with Dr. Good and Zoll, and compiled the evidence that finally resulted in successful criminal prosecution. Even at that, it took three murder convictions before Bennett went to prison because the Arkansas Supreme Court reversed the first two jury verdicts.
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Monday, August 9, 2010
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Conviction Review
I discovered this author when I read The Race and had to have more. All of his books are a great read!
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In his acclaimed career as a perennial bestselling author, Richard North Patterson has established himself as one of our most important voices in fiction and a keeper of the American conscience. He consistently writes novels that are intensely dramatic and deeply thought provoking. Now, in Conviction, Patterson tackles one of the most emotional and complex of all legal debates: When, if ever, does the state have the right to exact the ultimate punishment–and is the death penalty a crime unto itself?
Fifty-nine days. That’s how long Rennell Price has to live–after spending fifteen years on death row for the horrifying sexual assault and murder of a girl whose body was found floating in San Francisco Bay. But attorney Terri Paget, who has fought her own way out of hopelessness and abuse, has dedicated her life to fighting for people like Rennell Price. This time, Terri has a client she believes may actually be innocent, which means that an unpunished killer may still be free.
“I didn’t do that little girl” is all Rennell Price has ever said in his own defense. In a trial, Rennell, along with his older brother, Payton, was found guilty of the heinous crime, and the conviction has been upheld through one appeal after another. But as Terri spends time with Rennell and re-creates the events that put him on death row–beginning with the first minutes of the police investigation–she starts to understand the forces that shaped Rennell and the reason he has never been able to defend himself adequately.
As Terri prepares for a last appeal, she gets a new weapon for her battle–fresh evidence suggesting that another man, not Rennell, helped Payton commit the atrocity. But the grim machinery of capital punishment is already in motion, involving precedent and politics reaching from California to the highest court in the nation. As more people are drawn into Terri’s last-ditch battle, and as agendas and personalities clash while time is running out for Rennell Price, this much is clear: The serious doubts about Rennell’s guilt may not be enough to save him.
Conviction raises issues of ethics, political expediency, and personal trauma that will shake readers to their core. For here, in a novel of vivid characters on both sides of the law and profound tension on every page, Patterson illuminates the mysterious precincts between justice and truth–where the fate of one man involves not only his own life and the lives he has affected but the moral life of a nation.
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Sunday, August 8, 2010
Check Out Murder in Memphis: The True Story of a Family's Quest for Justice for $3.95
Murder in Memphis: The True Story of a Family's Quest for Justice Review
This book first interested me because I'm from Tennessee and then because it occured in my lifetime. I can't believe this murder took place. The most devastating part, after finding the victim, is the fact that the death sentence does not mean the death sentence. If I was a member of the victim's family; I just don't know how I would hold it together after all they've been through. When a case is as open and shut as this case was, I don't understand the rights of the accused. Obviously, the murderer does not think about thier victim's rights (to live); so why should the murderer be treated any differently.
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The true story of a family's quest for justice.
The murder of mother-of-two Debbie Groseclose resulted in death sentences for the killers and her charming naval recruiter husband, who hired them. But over twenty years later, the Groseclose family's ordeal to see justice done is far from over.
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Saturday, August 7, 2010
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The Penalty Review
One small word can best describe this true-life gritty legal thriller - WOW!
Michael Shea's twenty-five years experience as a trial lawyer is revealed in this first-class true-life legal thriller. The novel stems from the author's experience as a court-appointed attorney in defending Joseph Green Brown who was wrongly sentenced to death, dangling for more than a decade on death row before gaining freedom. What started as a routine "freebie" and a favor, slowly became one of the most interesting cases of Shea's career spanning more than fourteen years and developing a bond of mutual respect between the two men fighting the same cause (the author describes Brown as "a wonderful man who never gave up until justice prevailed.")
The author's intricate and practical knowledge of how the legal system works and how the concept "law" is far akin from the concept "justice" is brought out in clear lucid terms. The book tends to be somewhat descriptive in narration - it is actually a sharp statement of the criminal justice system as it exist today. Reading the book, I felt that whatever be the "theoretical" differences in the legal system of U.S. & this part of the world, one thing remains the same - in the "practical working" side of law - there isn't much difference - the "good old boy" brand of justice is holds good over here also.
A Time to Kill, John Grisham's debut work was based upon a murder case that he defended - though critically acclaimed it was not commercially a success until The Firm came along; Scott Turow's One L, was about his experiences as a first year Harvard Law Student - it became hugely successful only after Presumed Innocent was published - these two books, we are informed are the personal favorites of the author's themselves (Grisham waited until he found his almost look-alike - Matthew McConnaughty before he agreed for making Time To Kill a movie.)
The same I believe is the destiny of The Penalty. The author has poured his heart in, in writing the book - the passion is clearly bought out - and judging by the book, the author has in him the power and skill to pen a dashing legal thriller in the style of The Firm or Presumed Innocent - and I wouldn't be surprised if in a couple of years from now, a blurb quoting - "Shea the next Grisham" appears.
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This gripping legal thriller illustrates the ambiguity of justice, where an innocent man dangles fourteen years on death row before gaining his hard-won freedom. Based on the true story of Joe Brown and his young, court-appointed defense attorney, this book examines the illusion of a neutral or impartial jury, particularly in a capital murder trial of a young black man in the South. The attorney's insight into the lengthy appeals process causes one to question the ultimate sentence of society; the death penalty; and the fight for life that ensues once it has been mandated.
In broad strokes, this legal thriller paints a picture of the U.S. criminal justice system. Upon closer inspection, individual brush strokes reveal the underlying themes of racial and socio-economic prejudice, the concept of a neutral jury in capital murder trials, and the ;good old boy; brand of justice so prevalent, still, in law enforcement agencies, courtrooms and judges' chambers, not just in Florida, where this story takes place, but throughout the United States.
Although this is a work of fiction, and some of the names and places have been changed, the details of this story closely reflect the original case history and trial circumstances.
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Thursday, August 5, 2010
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What does the contamination of a small town's lake by the negligence of the Massachusetts Department of Correction have to do with President George W. Bush's election and re-election, Congressman William Delahunt's first election, Massachusetts Governors Bill Weld's and Paul Cellucci's quests for ambassadorships, Massachusetts Attorney Generals Scott Harshbarger's and Tom Reilly's tunnel vision, the politicized Massachusetts judiciary, the St. Patrick's Day parade in South Boston, "same-sex" unions, a corrupt FBI agent named John Morris, federal judge Mark Wolf and federal prosecutors Donald Stern and Fred Wyshak? This book says what!
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Wednesday, August 4, 2010
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The Last Lawyer: The Fight to Save Death Row Inmates Review
In "The Last Lawyer", author John Temple takes his readers on a compelling journey through the death penalty appellate process. He follows Ken Rose and his fellow attorneys and the investigators at the Center for Death Penalty Litigation (in Durham, NC) as they take on the case of Bo Jones, a former farmhand convicted of murder in 1993 and sentenced to death. In doing so the author weaves a rich story that is as engrossing as the best legal thriller, while at the same time exposing the reader to the often convoluted process of appealing a death penalty case through the state and federal court systems. Mr. Temple does all this in the context of a story that touches on themes of family, career, politics and justice.
While the appeals process can seem hopelessly complicated and drawn out to non-lawyers, the author skillfully integrates the procedural steps taken by the lawyers into the narrative so that the story flows smoothly. As Bo Jones's case winds its way through the court system, the reader is given a realistic picture of the ups and downs faced by the parties as events (sometimes random, sometimes seemingly unjust) propel the case towards its conclusion. While these events play out over the course of several years, Mr. Temple does a masterful job of keeping the story moving so that at no time does the reader feel that events are dragging.
Although the case is recounted through the eyes of Mr. Rose and his colleagues, the author does his best to present the motives of the many other characters we meet: the defendant's attorney at the original trial, the prosecuting attorney, the primary witness, and the state's attorney handling the appeal. Mr. Temple relies on interviews of the parties and notes and recollections of contemporaneous conversations amongst them (unfortunately not all the parties involved were willing to speak with him) and does not "create" details to add color to the story. He provides us with a well-developed sense of the challenges faced by Mr. Rose and his colleagues both in this cases and in their appellate work generally.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book and highly recommend it to anyone.
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The Last Lawyer is the true, inside story of how an idealistic legal genius and his diverse band of investigators and fellow attorneys fought to overturn a client's final sentence.
Ken Rose has handled more capital appeals cases than almost any other attorney in the United States. The Last Lawyer chronicles Rose's decade-long defense of Bo Jones, a North Carolina farmhand convicted of a 1987 murder. Rose called this his most frustrating case in twenty-five years, and it was one that received scant attention from judges or journalists. The Jones case bares the thorniest issues surrounding capital punishment. Inadequate legal counsel, mental retardation, mental illness, and sketchy witness testimony stymied Jones's original defense. Yet for many years, Rose's advocacy gained no traction, and Bo Jones came within three days of his execution.
The book follows Rose through a decade of setbacks and small triumphs as he gradually unearthed the evidence he hoped would save his client's life. At the same time, Rose also single-handedly built a nonprofit law firm that became a major force in the death penalty debate raging across the South.
The Last Lawyer offers unprecedented access to the inner workings of a capital defense team. Based on four and a half years of behind-the-scenes reporting by a journalism professor and nonfiction author, The Last Lawyer tells the unforgettable story of a lawyer's fight for justice.
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