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Author
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...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Real-estate agent Lacey Farrell, accidently walked in on a murder. The dying victim entrusts her with a journal that contains information so damaging that even the government's witness protection program can not keep Lacey safe.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a world-famous law professor is accused of murdering one of his students, he asks his most promising and ambitious former law students, Casey Jordan, to defend him, but Casey soon learns that the teacher she has always admired is hiding some deadly secrets.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
History is about to repeat itself when young attorney Peter Hale, fired from a job with his father's legal firm for mishandling a multi-million dollar case, takes a job as a public defender and lets his ego overule his good sense in a death-penalty case.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
At 12:21 p.m., on October 19, 2005, Saddam Hussein was escorted into the Courtroom of the Iraqi High Tribunal in Baghdad for one of the most important and chaotic trials in history. For a year, two American law professors had led an elite team of experts who prepared the judges and prosecutors for "the mother of all trials." Michael Scharf, a former State Department official who helped create the Yugoslavia Tribunal in 1993, and Michael Newton, then...
Publisher
Sundance Channel Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
With all the trappings of a classic murder mystery, The Staircase chronicles the sensational story of North Carolina author Michael Peterson, who stood trial in 2003 for the murder of his wife, Kathleen Peterson.
10) Degree of guilt
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
Christopher Paget defends a former lover Mary Carelli who is accused of murdering America's most eminent novelist, Mark Ransom.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Probation officer Nile Eddgar is accused of arranging for a drive-by shooting that killed his mother and the case stirs up a lot of old, best forgotten secrets, when it is brought before Judge Sonny Klonsky who spent her turbulent college years in the company of Nile's father, a leading campus revolutionary in the 1960s.
12) A time to kill
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
In Clanton, Mississippi, the life of a ten-year-old is shattered by two drunken and remorseless men. The mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhumane crime, until her African-American father acquires an assault rifle and takes justice into his own hands.
13) Monster
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
14) Silent witness
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Tony Lord leaves town under a cloud of suspicion after his girlfriend is found raped and murdered, but he returns twenty-seven years later to act as lawyer for his old friend Sam Robb who has been accused of killing a female student and finds himself enmeshed in conflicts from the past.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c1961
Language
English
Description
American judge Daniel Haywood presides over the trial of four German jurists accused of "legalizing" Nazi atrocities. But as graphic accounts of sterilization and murder unfold in the courtroom, mounting political pressure for leniency forces Haywood into making the most harrowing and difficult decision of his career.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The remarkable new account of an essential piece of American mythology--the trial of Lizzie Borden--based on twenty years of research and recently unearthed evidence. The Trial of Lizzie Borden tells the true story of one of the most sensational murder trials in American history. When Andrew and Abby Borden were brutally hacked to death in Fall River, Massachusetts, in August 1892, the arrest of the couple's younger daughter Lizzie turned the case...
Author
Publisher
Harmony Books
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Cut off from the hospital and rescue squad by an ice storm, midwife Sibyl Danforth makes the decision to perform a cesarean section on a patient she believes has died of a stroke during labor, but when her assistant tells police the mother was alive during the surgery, Sibyl and the entire community are drawn into a gripping trial.
18) Naked justice
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Wallace Barrett, the first African-American mayor of Tulsa, turns to attorney Ben Kincaid for help when he is accused of the murders of his pregnant wife and two young daughters.
20) Dark lady
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
When two prominent men are found dead within days of each other, it is up to Assistant County Prosecutor Stella Marz to determine if their deaths were coincidence or not.
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