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Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
While a scandalous murder trial rocks the city, it's business as usual at the law offices of Crane Poole & Schmidt, which means a caseload of criminal insanity, hostage situations, cross-dressing, cannibalism and outright mayhem. Ethically-challenged newcomer Jeffrey Coho fits right in, lustful litigator Denny Crane finally meets his match, and attorney Alan Shore continues to stretch the boundaries of the law.
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Publisher
Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Examines the life of Patty Hearst who suffered an unimaginable trauma and then made the stunning decision to join her captors' crusade
On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, a sophomore in college and heiress to the Hearst family fortune, was kidnapped by a ragtag group of self-styled revolutionaries calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army. The already sensational story took the first of many incredible twists when the group released a tape of...
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English
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Full Courtroom Press takes the reader behind-the-scenes and into the mind of former combat Marine and current Boston civil trial lawyer, Mike Lyons, as he plans and strategizes to meet the challenges of two dramatic cases. The powerful force of shame keeps both clients from being forthright with Mike, creating tension and obstacles during each trial. Mike educates the reader about how to win in a courtroom.
This book is both entertaining and enriching....
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English
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If you like courtroom drama, these cases read like finely-crafted short stories, each laid out to create tension and capture the reader. This is Mr. Katz's autobiographical anthology of court cases he selected from a legal career that spanned over forty years. He was an assistant district attorney, a public defender, an insurance defense attorney, and a civil plaintive in Louisiana state and federal courts and in state courts in Colorado.
Entwined...
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English
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Rich with in-depth, on-the-ground investigative reporting that gives readers a front row seat to Aaron Hernandez's tumultuous downward spiral. This book will reveal the unvarnished truth behind the troubled star, with first-person accounts and untold stories - from his hometown of Bristol, CT to his college days in Gainesville, FL to the Patriots' NFL locker room where he ascended to stardom, to the prison where Hernandez spent his final days.
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Español
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Sobre el contenido de este trabajo tan sólo dos palabras… se trata de una reflexión muy gremial propia de los teóricos del Derecho, pues pretende dilucidar si las normas que forman un ordenamiento jurídico son de una sola clase o si pertenecen a dos categorías distintas, las normas o reglas y los principios, y, en tal caso, en qué se diferencian o para qué sirven unas y otros… deseo aclarar que no se trata de ninguna disputa estrechamente...
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English
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Finalist for the Edgar Award and one of Ann Rule's top five true-crime titles: The definitive account of the Dr. Sam Sheppard murder mystery "My God . . . I think they've killed Marilyn!" At 5:40 a.m. on July 4, 1954, the mayor of Bay Village, a small suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, received a frantic phone call from his neighbor Dr. Sam Sheppard. The news was too terrible to comprehend: Marilyn, Sam's lovely wife, was dead, her face and torso...
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Español
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Este libro presenta el debate normativo actual entre algunos de los diferentes modelos más relevantes en ciencia jurídica: la disciplina que tiene como objetivo establecer cuál es el contenido de los diferentes derechos.
El volumen se abre con un ensayo introductorio de Álvaro Núñez que pretende responder qué es la ciencia jurídica para, después, aclarar el tipo de desacuerdos que tienen las diferentes doctrinas (o ideologías) de la ciencia...
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Español
Description
Este libro está compuesto por una serie de trabajos que, de manera conjunta, proponen la necesidad de construir una Teoría de la Prueba judicial a partir de dos condiciones.
En primer lugar, esta debe estar constituida desde los hechos y los problemas planteados por éstos, y no desde las normas, esto es, que no se limite a ver los problemas de prueba como problemas de interpretación de las normas jurídicas que regulen la actividad probatoria....
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English
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Of the 1.65 million lawsuits enforcing federal laws over the past decade, 3 percent were prosecuted by the federal government, while 97 percent were litigated by private parties. When and why did private plaintiff-driven litigation become a dominant model for enforcing federal regulation? The Litigation State shows how government legislation created the nation's reliance upon private litigation, and investigates why Congress would choose to mobilize,...
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Español
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Este manual ofrece pistas y técnicas para construir y sustentar una argumentación jurídica convincente y también para incitar a los juristas a no descuidar y descartar el valor del método en sus trabajos. Uno de sus objetivos es demostrar el valor agregado del uso de un método -en especial, del método que el autor plantea- durante un trabajo jurídico.
La primera parte del libro se dedica, por tanto, a la presentación de algunas técnicas...
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Español
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La ponderación se ha convertido en el tópico de nuestro tiempo y punto de debates en torno a las concepciones del Derecho, los derechos y la justicia. Precisamente, teniendo como marco el escenario continental europeo, los profesores Manuel Atienza y Juan Antonio García Amado emprenden un "combate dialéctico 'cuerpo a cuerpo'" que, a partir del trabajo de uno de los autores, va tomando forma epistolar.
Se trata de un debate fundamental para comprender...
16) The Prick
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Language
English
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Jason Hunter's dwindling bank account is a daily reminder that Jason never should have left his job at a prestigious law firm to start his own practice, a solo shop located in uncomfortable proximity to a strip club. Hope arrives in the form of Maggie Moxley, a legal assistant who tearfully claims that Robert Spelkin III-her boss, and the office's most profitable partner-sexually assaulted her at work. Looking to transform Moxley's misfortune into...
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Language
Français
Description
En 25 questions, ce guide aborde les droits et les devoirs des copropriétaires, et donne des arguments, des exemples et des conseils en cas de litige à régler à l'amiable ou devant la justice : quels sont les rles du conseil syndical et de l'assemblée générale, comment résoudre des problèmes affectant les parties communes ou privatives, etc.
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Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The basis for the Meryl Streep film A Cry in the Dark : The dramatic true story of a mother's worst nightmare and the murder trial that shocked Australia. On a camping trip at Ayer's Rock, the Chamberlain family's infant daughter disappeared in the middle of the night. Her distraught mother, Lindy, claimed she saw a dingo carry her off into the Australian outback. Two years later, their tragedy worsened when, without a murder weapon, a body, or even...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
In the major league draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the State of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland A$1 (Bs, he said goodbye to his hometown of Ada and left to pursue his dreams of big league glory. Six years later he was back, his dreams broken by a bad arm and bad habits$1 (Bdrinking, drugs, and women. He began to show signs of mental illness. Unable to keep a job, he moved in with his mother and slept twenty...
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