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Texas high sheriffs
Par Thad Sitton. 1988
Discusses the old ways of law enforcement as practiced by the rural Texas sheriff before 1965. The author interviewed current…
(at time of publication) and former sheriffs from across the state whose careers in some cases spanned more than thirty years. The stories reveal not only their unique character in maintaining law and order but also their important social role in the community as marriage counselor, friend and confidant, arbiter over property disputes, and legal advisor. Strong language and violenceConviction: the untold story of putting Jodi Arias behind bars
Par Juan Martinez. 2017
Martinez, the Maricopa County prosecutor who convicted Arias for killing Travis Alexander in the 2013 sensational, televised trial, presents the…
facts of the case from beginning to end, including details that were never revealed at trial. Explicit descriptions of sex, some strong language and violenceEqual justice: the courage of Ada Sipuel
Par William Bernhardt, Kim Henry. 2006
The law said America kept the black and white races separate but equal. From the time she was a young…
girl growing up in Chickasha, Oklahoma, however, Ada Sipuel learned that separate was never equal. Ada hoped to fight for equality for all people by becoming a lawyer, but the only law school in Oklahoma refused to admit her because of the color of her skin. Ada learned that civil disobedience could combat inequality. Her bravery set in motion a chain of events that broke down barriers of injustice in America. UnratedGetting life: an innocent man's 25-year journey from prison to peace
Par Michael Morton. 2014
Memoir of how Morton spent twenty-five years in prison, accused of savagely bludgeoning his wife to death, before being released…
on the basis of exculpatory physical evidence of the real killer's guilt, which had been in the evidence locker the whole time he was in prison. Some descriptions of sex and violenceGood cops, bad verdict: how racial politics convicted us of murder
Par Larry Nevers. 2007
Masters of the game: inside the world's most powerful law firm
Par Kim Isaac Eisler, Kim Eisler. 2010
Counsel to presidents and politicos, sports teams, business tycoons, and other movers and shakers, the D.C. firm of Williams &…
Connolly has long been the legal team that empowers the most powerful people on earth. In this engrossing book, a seasoned law journalist focuses on five of the firm's most fascinating membersDetroit resurrected: to bankruptcy and back
Par Nathan Bomey. 2016
The inside story of the fight to save the city of Detroit, Michigan, after the largest municipal bankruptcy in American…
history. It is a sweeping account of financial ruin, backroom intrigue, and political rebirth in the struggle to reinvent one of America's iconic cities. Strong language. A 2017 Michigan Notable Book. 2016. Award winnerFrank Springer and New Mexico: from the Colfax County War to the emergence of modern Santa Fe
Par David L. Caffey. 2007
Frank Springer rode into Cimarron, New Mexico, and found himself in the middle of the Colfax County War. He was…
a foe of the speculators known as "the Santa Fe Ring" and helped establish Highlands University and the Museum of New Mexico and as president of the Maxwell Land Grant company developed natural resourcesMorley Swingle, veteran prosecuting attorney, combines true crime and legal analysis with a healthy dose of humor as he re-creates…
more than thirty stories of villains, heroes, and ordinary citizens, taking readers from the crime scene to the courtroom and sharing the occasional "Perry Mason Moment."The Zong: a massacre, the law and the end of slavery
Par James Walvin. 2011
This book details the horror of the killing of enslaved Africans on board the ship The Zong in 1781, the…
lawsuit that ensued and its role in the efforts of abolitionists to end the slave trade. Some descriptions of sex and some violenceIf I ran for president
Par Catherine Stier, Lynne Avril. 2007
Worse than the devil: anarchists, Clarence Darrow, and justice in a time of terror
Par Dean A. Strang. 2016
A police station bombing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on November 24, 1917, killed ten people and ignited a frenzied backlash against…
Italian immigrants, who were often viewed as anarchists. Clarence Darrow, known as America's foremost lawyer, took on the cases of eleven Italians. Amid the bombing frenzy and World War I patriotic sentiment, Darrow gained freedom for most of the convicted. ViolenceMurder in Coweta County
Par Margaret Anne Barnes, Margaret A. Barnes. 1983
Murder In Coweta County is a detailed and chillingly realistic reconstruction of the brutal murder of tenant farmer Wilson Turner…
that took place in rural Georgia 1948. It follows the investigation that eventually brought the murderer, a powerful county "lord", to justice with a conviction that set legal precedents. Strong language and violenceThis bloody deed: the Magruder incident
Par Ladd Hamilton. 1994
The lost king of France: a true story of revolution, revenge, and DNA
Par Deborah Cadbury. 2002
Although the king and queen of France were publicly executed during the French Revolution, Louis-Charles, the heir to the throne,…
was kept in prison where he was brutally treated and died at age 10--or so it was said. Rumors to the contrary started immediately and several people claiming to be him appeared in the following years. It took DNA testing 200 years later to prove what happened to himBreaking chains: slavery on trial in the Oregon Territory
Par R. Gregory Nokes. 2013
Slaves were brought to the Oregon Territory by their masters. One of them, Robin Holmes, sued his master, Nathaniel Ford,…
for the possession of Holmes' children and won. This was a rare victory. While Oregon voted to be a free state, its constitution denied African Americans and Chinese Americans most rightsFamous crimes revisited: from Sacco-Vanzetti to O.J. Simpson, including Lindbergh kidnapping, Sam Sheppard, John F. Kennedy, Vincent Foster, JonBenet Ramsey
Par Henry Lee, Henry C Lee, Jerry Labriola. 2001
World renowned forensic scientist, Dr. Henry Lee, takes a look back at legendary crimes of the twentieth century. Dr. Lee…
along with his co-author Jerry Labriola release facts and photos never before disclosed. Even with modern forensic equipment and techniques, forensic errors can still be made, public opinion can influence outcome and human error can tarnish investigationsFinding Dad: from "love child" to daughter
Par Kara Sundlun. 2015
Award winning TV journalist who anchors the news at WFSB in Hartford and hosts Better Connecticut knew of her father…
but had never laid eyes on him until she heard on the news that he was running for governor in Rhode Island. One look and she knew she needed to find the other half of her. Once she found him and was acknowledged by him, she knew she would have to make the choice of unconditional love and forgiveness to meet her new family and find space in her father's heartWe're dead, come on in
Par Bruce Davis. 2005
In January 1932, ten local lawmen approached two brothers in an isolated Missouri farmhouse. Minutes later, six officers were dead,…
three were wounded, and the outlaws escaped, only to be captured in Houston, Texas days later. ViolenceGaylord, Michigan. A twisted account of 1986 unsolved murder, vindictive prosecution, and a psychotic key witness whose testimony led to…
the wrongful imprisonment of five innocent men. Some strong language and some violence. 2015