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Legacy of Deception: An Investigation of Mark Fuhrman and Racism in the LAPD, Hörbuch, Digital, 148min
In the early of investigating the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Lyle Goldman, L.A.P.D. Homicide Detective Mark Fuhrman uncovered evidence destined to become the cornerstone of the prosecution's case in the trial of O.J. Simpson. But as the elaborate legal epic unfolded, Fuhrman himself-his character and professional conduct - far overshadowed the impact of his evidence. What emerged in the public eye, though shielded from the eyes of the jurors, was an appalling history of planting evidence, beating up suspects, virulent racism and anti-Semitism acted out behind the safety of a badge. While the defense attempted to capitalize on the heavily publicized information about Fuhrman, prosecutors scrambled to maintain courtroom focus on the actual defendant. Meanwhile, journalist Stephen Singular took on the task of infiltrating the police department crime lab in search of the truth. What he discovered earned him a starring role on the glittery defense team as he outlined for them a means of proving that the defendant's blood actually could have been planted at the crime scene. With this demonstration as a springboard, the defense scored a victory that astonished the entire world. But had a renegade cop actually planted the blood or not? In Legacy of Deception, Stephen Singular disassembles the wall of deception constructed by the L.A.P.D. to reveal a scenario far more sinister than anything that emerged in the course of the trial chilling proof that true innocence was rare or nonexistent in this nightmarish case. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen Singular. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/pnix/000261/bk_pnix_000261_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The King of Torts, The Last Juror, Hörbuch, Digital, 702min
The King of Torts Clay Carter has been at the office of the public defender too long and, like most of his colleagues, dreams of a better job in a real firm. When he reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, he assumes it is just another of the many senseless murders that hit D.C. every week. As he digs into the background of his client, Clay stumbles on a conspiracy too horrible to believe. He suddenly finds himself in the middle of a complex case against one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, looking at the kind of enormous settlement that would make him, almost overnight, the legal profession's newest king of torts.... The Last Juror In 1970, one of Mississippi's more colorful weekly newspapers went bankrupt. The future of the paper looked grim until a young mother was brutally raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgitt family. The murderer, Danny Padgitt, was tried before a packed courthouse, and the trial came to a startling end when the defendant threatened revenge against the jurors if they convicted him. Nevertheless, they found him guilty, and he was sentenced to life in prison. But in Mississippi in 1970, "life" didn't necessarily mean "life", and nine years later Padgitt was paroled. He returned to Ford County, and the retribution began. Language: English. Narrator: Dennis Boutsikaris, Terrence Mann. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/003191/bk_rand_003191_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Beyond Contempt: The Inside Story of the Phone Hacking Trial , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 495min
You know all about the phone hacking trial, don't you? Rebekah Brooks was acquitted, and Andy Coulson went to jail. But why? Why was Brooks, the public face of the phone hacking scandal, found not guilty on all charges? Why did Coulson's expensive defense frustrate reporters? What impact did Rupert Murdoch's millions have on the trial? And why did the jurors reach the decisions they did? Blow-by-blow: Crown v. Rebekah Brooks & Others Peter Jukes, an award-winning TV crime writer, starts at the beginning: October 2013 and the Old Bailey is gearing up for an eight-month courtroom clash. It's a showdown that will pit tabloid newspaper executives in Rupert Murdoch's News International against the British state. The journalists are accused of phone hacking, corrupting public officials, and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. After years of cover up involving News International, the Metropolitan Police, and the government, the judge tells the jury, "British justice is on trial." Insight into British journalism and politics After tweeting the first few days of the case, Jukes runs out of money - and accidentally becomes the UK's first crowd-funded journalist. New media exposes the old as the trial lays bare the venality and surveillance of the news of the world: its ability to pry into the lives of anyone who matters, at any moment: a Hollywood actress, a missing girl, a cabinet minister. It's also a battle. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Jukes. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/042115/bk_acx0_042115_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Reckoning: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1056min
Number-one best-selling author John Grisham's The Reckoning is his most powerful, surprising, and suspenseful thriller yet."A murder mystery, a courtroom drama, a family saga…The Reckoning is Grisham's argument that he's not just a boilerplate thriller writer. Most jurors will think the counselor has made his case." (USA Today)October 1946, Clanton, MississippiPete Banning was Clanton, Mississippi's favorite son - a decorated World War II hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbor, and a faithful member of the Methodist church. Then one cool October morning he rose early, drove into town, walked into the church, and calmly shot and killed his pastor and friend, the Reverend Dexter Bell. As if the murder weren’t shocking enough, it was even more baffling that Pete's only statement about it - to the sheriff, to his lawyers, to the judge, to the jury, and to his family - was: "I have nothing to say." He was not afraid of death and was willing to take his motive to the grave. In a major novel unlike anything he has written before, John Grisham takes us on an incredible journey, from the Jim Crow South to the jungles of the Philippines during World War II; from an insane asylum filled with secrets to the Clanton courtroom where Pete's defense attorney tries desperately to save him. Reminiscent of the finest tradition of Southern Gothic storytelling, The Reckoning would not be complete without Grisham's signature layers of legal suspense, and he delivers every minute. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Beck. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/006207/bk_rand_006207_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Secret Life of a Juror: Voir Dire: The Domestic Violence Query: A Juror's Perspective Series, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 435min
On January 23, 2014, the author reported for jury duty without taking notice to the media vehicles lined in front of the courthouse. He checked in unaware that 1,200 others were also being counted as potential jurors. He did not know when he walked into the courtroom that the case of premeditated murder would change his life. It would seem that the most important question of the day, as asked to every potential juror, was whether he could, if the circumstances were correct and the law dictated as such, apply the death penalty to the defendant? The most critical question, however, came during the written questioning process of voir dire, a tool for the court to determine whether a potential juror would be a final decision maker. The question was simple: had he ever experienced domestic violence as an adult or juvenile? The answer would force the juror to face a past painted with child abuse and a future framed by shame. He had to confront the demons that would eventually impact his decision of whether the defendant should live or die. Award-winning author and former death penalty juror Paul Sanders does it again in his juror's perspective series that began with the best-seller, Brain Damage: A Juror's Tale and continued with Why Not Kill Her: A Juror's Perspective and riveted fans with Banquet of Consequences: A Juror's Plight.Secret Life of a Juror: Voir Dire is not as much about an infamous killer but about the sacrifices and truths a juror must confront before deciding the fate of another. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Torrente. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/128931/bk_acx0_128931_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Ophelia Cut: Dismas Hardy, Book 14, Hörbuch, Digital, 506min
When a brutal rapist is murdered, a loving father stands accused of the crime. Defense attorney Dismas Hardy must defend his brother-in-law and old friend Moses McGuire in a thrilling case that hits far too close to home. Moses McGuire has good reason to be concerned about his beautiful 23-year-old daughter, Brittany. She moves quickly from one boyfriend to the next, and always seems to prefer a new and mysterious stranger to a man she knows something about. But her most recent ex, Rick Jessup, isn’t willing to let her go, culminating in a terrible night when Brittany is raped. Within 24 hours, Rick Jessup is dead, Moses McGuire is the prime suspect in the investigation, and Dismas Hardy has been hired to defend his brother-in-law. Making things even more complicated, McGuire has fallen off the wagon, and his stay in prison could bring to light old secrets that would destroy Hardy and his closest colleagues’ careers. As the overwhelming evidence against McGuire piles up, Dismas Hardy focuses on planting doubt in the minds of the jurors - until, in a feat of legal ingenuity that is staggering in both its implications and its simplicity, Hardy sees a new way forward that might just save them all. But at what price? For the first time since 2009, Dismas Hardy, the author’s most beloved protagonist, returns in a masterful novel that showcases Lescroart’s extraordinary storytelling gifts: a cast of flesh-and-blood characters, morally complex situations, and relentless, nail-biting suspense. Language: English. Narrator: David Colacci. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/004931/bk_brll_004931_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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All's Fair , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 169min
She’s swept off her feet... Or kept from falling on her behind in the lobby of the Los Angeles Superior Court Building by the first man to catch her eye since opening her own business. Evie Thomas can’t spare time from running her brand new flower shop to serve on a jury. Particularly a celebrity trial. Can’t these soap opera stars settle their problems without involving those trying to earn an honest living? Still, if she must do her civic duty, it doesn’t hurt to have the diversion of a smart, sexy soldier just back from the Middle East. It’s not as if she’s falling in love. He catches her... But he might as well just throw her back. Jury duty threatens to keep Mark Vasquez from his well-earned vacation in the South Seas. Isn’t it enough that he serves his country in a capacity so secret, even the CIA and FBI don’t know for sure what his branch of the service does? Must he sit through the latest Los Angeles dog-and-pony trial? And his past experience with women hasn’t exactly led him to trust them. But he can’t stop watching Evie, listening to her every word, kissing her every time they are alone. At court...or in their hotel, where the judge has placed the jurors to keep them from the paparazzi. A sequestered affair... Just for the duration of the trial. Then they will go their separate ways. Never think of one another again. It’s not like they’re falling in love. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Audrey Lusk. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/065136/bk_acx0_065136_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Ophelia Cut: Dismas Hardy, Book 14 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 980min
When a brutal rapist is murdered, a loving father stands accused of the crime. Defense attorney Dismas Hardy must defend his brother-in-law and old friend Moses McGuire in a thrilling case that hits far too close to home. Moses McGuire has good reason to be concerned about his beautiful 23-year-old daughter, Brittany. She moves quickly from one boyfriend to the next, and always seems to prefer a new and mysterious stranger to a man she knows something about. But her most recent ex, Rick Jessup, isn’t willing to let her go, culminating in a terrible night when Brittany is raped. Within 24 hours, Rick Jessup is dead, Moses McGuire is the prime suspect in the investigation, and Dismas Hardy has been hired to defend his brother-in-law. Making things even more complicated, McGuire has fallen off the wagon, and his stay in prison could bring to light old secrets that would destroy Hardy and his closest colleagues’ careers. As the overwhelming evidence against McGuire piles up, Dismas Hardy focuses on planting doubt in the minds of the jurors - until, in a feat of legal ingenuity that is staggering in both its implications and its simplicity, Hardy sees a new way forward that might just save them all. But at what price? For the first time since 2009, Dismas Hardy, the author’s most beloved protagonist, returns in a masterful novel that showcases Lescroart’s extraordinary storytelling gifts: a cast of flesh-and-blood characters, morally complex situations, and relentless, nail-biting suspense. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Colacci. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/004930/bk_brll_004930_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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How Not to Practice Law: In the Office and in the Courtroom , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 127min
How Not to Practice Law is the the perfect book and should be required listening for any law student, or new lawyer going out on his or her own, or with a law firm or government agency, especially before making a first appearance in any court of law - whether civil or criminal. It separates what really goes on in the practice of law in real life from what is seen on the numerous popular law-oriented shows on television. The 'do" and "don't do" information in this book is rarely found in any law school textbooks or classrooms and must be learned either with this book, or the hard way, by painful and embarrassing experiences that you should definitely want to avoid, because they can seriously affect your client's case, and you image in front of the trier of facts. The material in this book was compiled by a combination of many interviews with experienced judges, trial lawyers, law firm partners, former jurors, and the author's years of experience working as a bail bondsman, law clerk with the District Attorney's office, being a trial lawyer for 20 years, and from working with numerous attorneys and teaching courses at a small private law school where he was an acting Dean and teacher of Legal Writing courses for students preparing for a State Bar Examination. The main object of this book is to assist its listeners to avoid situations that may be used as negative examples in future updated editions of this book. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Sharp, Esq.. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/068206/bk_acx0_068206_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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With Prejudice (eBook, ePUB)
No one knows what happened that night. Seven strangers must decide.Earl Thomas, a straight-laced taxman with his fair share of police encounters, is the begrudging foreperson in a high-stakes trial in Miami. Laura Hurtado-Perez is a physician whose unassuming manner conceals a private pain. Joseph Cole is the founder of his local neighborhood watch, unduly obsessed with the families around him. Along with four others, these jurors of varying ages and walks of life whose paths would likely never have otherwise crossed must come together to make one of the most important decisions of their lives. On the night Melina Mora, a free-spirited woman both proud and kind, was murdered, she was seen with a young man of Gabriel Soto's description. Two strands of her hair were found in his bedroom. Sandy Grunwald, a young prosecutor whose political ambitions depend on securing a conviction, finds herself pitted against Jordan Whipple, a preening public defender armed with a freshly discovered, dynamite piece of evidence on the eve of the trial-if the Honorable Darla Tackett will admit it. What Sandy, Jordan, and Judge Tackett all know, however, is that the criminal justice system is complicated, and everyone has a story-especially the jury. And it's their experiences, biases, and beliefs that will ultimately shape the verdict. With striking originality and expert storytelling, Robin Peguero's debut novel explores the prejudice that hangs over every trial in America. You've never read a legal thriller quite like this. There's never been a thriller writer quite like Peguero. And you will not be able to predict how it all ends.- Shop: buecher
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