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Author : Steve Vogel
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1992-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312929080
In November 1983, David Hendricks's wife and three children were found butchered in their Bloomington, Illinois, home while Hendricks was away on business. Hendricks soon became the prime suspect in the murders of his family. Reissue.
Author : Whitney G.
Publisher : WhitGBooks
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781386341369
I hate him… I hate that I fell in love with him, I hate that he didn’t love me back, and I hate the fact that I just made a life-altering decision just so I could get the hell away from him. He’d always said that he was unchangeable, heartless, and cold… I really should’ve believed him…
Author : Peter Manso
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-05
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781439187449
In January 2002, forty-six-year-old Christa Worthington was found stabbed to death in the kitchen of her Truro, Cape Cod, cottage, her curly-haired toddler clutching her body. A former Vassar girl and scion of a prominent local family, Christa had abandoned a glamorous career as a fashion writer for a simpler life on the Cape, where she had an affair with a married fisherman and had his child. After her murder, evidence pointed toward several local men who had known her. Yet in 2005, investigators arrested Christopher McCowen, a thirty-four-year-old African-American garbage collector with an IQ of 76. The local headlines screamed, “Black Trash Hauler Ruins Beautiful White Family” and “Black Murderer Apprehended in Fashion Writer Slaying,” while the sole evidence against McCowen was a DNA match showing that he’d had sex with Worthington prior to her murder. There were no fingerprints, no witnesses, and although the state medical examiner acknowledged there was no evidence of rape, the defendant was convicted after a five-week trial replete with conflicting testimony, accusations of crime scene contamination, and police misconduct—and was condemned to three lifetime sentences in prison with no parole. Rarely has a homicide trial been refracted so clearly through the prism of those who engineered it, and in Reasonable Doubt, bestselling author and biographer Peter Manso is determined to rectify what has become one of the most grossly unjust verdicts in modern trial history. In his riveting new book he bares the anatomy of a horrific murder—as well as the political corruption and racism that appear to be endemic in one of America’s most privileged playgrounds, Cape Cod. Exhaustively researched and vividly accessible, Reasonable Doubt is a no-holds-barred account of not only Christa Worthington’s murder but also of a botched investigation and a trial that was rife with bias. Manso dug deep into the case, and the results were explosive. The Cape DA indicted the author, threatening him with fifty years in prison. The trial and conviction of Christopher McCowen for rape and murder should worry American citizens, and should prompt us to truly examine the lip service we pay to the presumption of innocence . . . and to reasonable doubt. With this explosive and challenging book Manso does just that.
Author : Malin Persson Giolito
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590519202
Best Thriller and Mystery of the Year – Washington Post Best Thriller and Mystery of the Year – San Francisco Gate From the award-winning author of Quicksand, a gripping legal thriller that follows one woman’s conflicted efforts to overturn what may be a wrongful conviction. I'm giving you a chance to achieve every lawyer’s dream, said Sophia Weber’s old professor. Freeing an innocent man. Thirteen years ago, a fifteen-year-old girl was murdered. Doctor Stig Ahlin was sentenced to life in prison. But no one has forgotten the brutal crime. Ahlin is known as one of the most ruthless criminals. When Sophia Weber discovers critical flaws in the murder investigation, she decides to help Ahlin. But Sophia doing her utmost to get her client exonerated arouses many people's disgust. And the more she learns, the more difficult her job becomes. What kind of man is her client really? What has he done? And will she ever know the truth?
Author : Xanthé Mallett
Publisher : Macmillan Publishers Aus.
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781760982539
'The good, bad and downright rotten parts of Australia's criminal justice system are put on trial by Dr Xanthé Mallett. With her clear-eyed logic and objectivity, this compelling book identifies reasonable doubts which must keep prosecutors and defence lawyers awake at night.' Hedley Thomas, host of the Teacher's Pet podcast We all put our faith in the criminal justice system. We trust the professionals: the police, the lawyers, the judges, the expert witnesses. But what happens when the process lets us down and the wrong person ends up in jail? Henry Keogh spent almost twenty years locked away for a murder that never even happened. Khalid Baker was imprisoned for the death of a man his best friend has openly admitted to causing. And the exposure of 'Lawyer X' Nicola Gobbo's double-dealing could lead to some of Australia's most notorious convictions being overturned. Forensic scientist Xanthé Mallett is used to dealing with the darker side of humanity. Now she's turning her skills and insight to miscarriages of justice and cases of Australians who have been wrongfully convicted. Exposing false confessions, polices biases, misplaced evidence and dodgy science, Reasonable Doubt is an expert's account of the murky underbelly of our justice system - and the way it affects us all.
Author : Philip Friedman
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1725672421
Face to face with the woman accused of killing his son, Michael Ryan was surprisingly calm
Author : Shmuel Waldman
Publisher : Feldheim Publishers
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Faith (Judaism)
ISBN : 1583308067
This book was written for the Jew who seeks evidence and proofs that the principal beliefs of Judaism are indeed true. Readable and friendly, inspiring and refreshing, this book presents the main issues of Judaism in depth. It includes compelling evidence to there being a Creator, evidence to the Divine origin of our Torah, to there being a spiritual soul and the World To Come, and Divine guidance throughout Jewish history. It discusses the problems with Evolution, and it deals with the Holocaust and human suffering. It also provides many other sources for further reading, and a glossary of terms. This edition is recommended for readers with a strong Torah background, seeking an informed, yet less secular, approach.
Author : Kieron O'Connor,Frederick Aardema,Marie-Claude Pélissier
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780470868782
Traditionally, obsessive-compulsive disorder has been classified as an anxiety disorder, but there is increasing evidence that it has schizotypal features ? in other words it is a belief disorder. This book describes the ways in which reasoning can be applied to OCD for effective treatment regimes. It moves comprehensively through theoretical, experimental, clinical and treatment aspects of reasoning research, and contains a detailed treatment manual of great value to practitioners, including assessment and treatment protocols and case studies
Author : Gregory Ashe
Publisher : Hodgkin and Blount
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
After almost twenty years, Emery Hazard finally has the man he loves. But things with his boyfriend and fellow detective, John-Henry Somerset, are never easy, and they’ve been more complicated lately for two reasons: Somers’s ex-wife and daughter. No matter what Hazard does, he can’t seem to get away from the most important women in his boyfriend’s life. While Hazard struggles with his new reality (changing dirty diapers, just to start), a bizarre murder offers a distraction. John Oscar Walden, the leader of a local cult, is found dead by the police, and the case falls to Hazard and Somers. The investigation takes the two detectives into the cult’s twisted relationships and the unswerving demands of power and faith. But the deeper Hazard looks into the cult, the deeper he must look into his own past, where belief and reason have already clashed once. And as Hazard struggles to protect the most vulnerable of Walden’s victims, he uncovers a deeper, more vicious plot behind Walden’s murder, and Hazard finds himself doing what he never expected: racing to save the killer. Only, that is, if Somers doesn’t need him to babysit.
Author : Phillip Margolin
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250117557
A magician linked to three murders and suspicious deaths years ago disappears in the middle of his new act in New York Times bestseller Phillip Margolin’s latest thriller featuring Robin Lockwood Robin Lockwood is a young criminal defense attorney and partner in a prominent law firm in Portland, Oregon. A former MMA fighter and Yale Law graduate, she joined the firm of legal legend Regina Barrister not long before Regina was forced into retirement by early onset Alzheimer’s. One of Regina’s former clients, Robert Chesterfield, shows up in the law office with an odd request—he’s seeking help from his old attorney in acquiring patent protection for an illusion. Chesterfield is a professional magician of some reknown and he has a major new trick he’s about to debut. This is out of the scope of the law firm’s expertise, but when Robin Lockwood looks into his previous relationship with the firm, she learns that twenty years ago he was arrested for two murders, one attempted murder, and was involved in the potentially suspicious death of his very rich wife. At the time, Regina Barrister defended him with ease, after which he resumed his career as a magician in Las Vegas. Now, decades later, he debuts his new trick—only to disappear at the end. He’s a man with more than one dark past and many enemies—is his disappearance tied to one of the many people who have good reason to hate him? Was he killed and his body disposed of, or did he use his considerable skills to engineer his own disappearance? Robin Lockwood must unravel the tangled skein of murder and bloody mischief to learn how it all ties together.
Author : Jeffrey Archer
Publisher : Samuel French Incorporated Plays
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573016763
In the Central Criminal Court, the Old Bailey Sir David Metcalfe, distinguished QC and Chairman of the Bar Council, is conducting the most important defense of his career - his own. Accused of the willful murder of his terminally ill wife, Sir David finds himself locked in legal combat with his old rival, Sir Anthony Blair Booth QC, prosecuting counsel.-3 women, 11 men
Author : James Q. Whitman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780300116007
To be convicted of a crime in the United States, a person must be proven guilty “beyond a reasonable doubt.” But what is reasonable doubt? Even sophisticated legal experts find this fundamental doctrine difficult to explain. In this accessible book, James Q. Whitman digs deep into the history of the law and discovers that we have lost sight of the original purpose of “reasonable doubt.” It was not originally a legal rule at all, he shows, but a theological one. The rule as we understand it today is intended to protect the accused. But Whitman traces its history back through centuries of Christian theology and common-law history to reveal that the original concern was to protect the souls of jurors. In Christian tradition, a person who experienced doubt yet convicted an innocent defendant was guilty of a mortal sin. Jurors fearful for their own souls were reassured that they were safe, as long as their doubts were not “reasonable.” Today, the old rule of reasonable doubt survives, but it has been turned to different purposes. The result is confusion for jurors, and a serious moral challenge for our system of justice.
Author : Alan M. Dershowitz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1997-02-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780684832647
One of America's leading appeal lawyers, Alan Dershowitz was the man chosen to prepare the appeal should O.J. Simpson have been convicted. Now Professor Dershowitz uses this case to examine the larger issues and to identify the social forces - media, money, gender, and race - that shape the criminal-justice system in America today. How could one of the longest trials in the history of America's judicial system produce a verdict after only hours of jury deliberation? Was this really a case of circumstantial evidence?
Author : Fisha Nekongo
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781524563851
The novel Reasonable Doubt begins with a boy born to two odd couplesa male teacher and his female underage student. The teacher had statutorily raped his student, and she conceived a male child. The couple died without seeing their son. This boy, to the amazement of the people who saw him, was born without a shadow, but his shadow appeared when he turned two years old. The boy was raised by his half-atheist, maternal grandfather, who was a war veteran, and other Christian family members. The boy grew up to be a genius who, like his grandfather, started questioning popular societal beliefs on politics and religion. He later opts to become a medical doctor. As a medical intern in another town, he and his cousin, who turned out to be a corrupt police officer, robbed a corrupt politician. The politician was ultimately killed by the doctor due to the latters ideology and the formers way of life. The young doctor justifies his action of killing the doctor with reasons. After killing the politician, he saves his stubborn landlady who almost died from appendicitis by operating on her at a state hospital where he works on his off shift. Later, he meets the landladys daughter who falls in love with him, and they eventually become a couple at the end of the story. The doctor had also met mystical beings Jesus and Satan in his flat on the day of the murder and debates with them about their existence. The young man, although he had killed another human being, strongly believe it was necessary. To him, there is no actual right or wrong, but those beliefs are all man-made. And although he had killed someone, he was never apprehended by the law because he and his corrupt police cousin defeated the cause of justice by tampering the evidence. This doctor had later helped a poor family with some of the money that they robbed from the dead politician. The title of the novel is based on the doubts that the young doctor developed because of how he was raised. The short stories are self-explanatory as they are not very long. National Natives is about the political illusions that most voters believe and not question thoroughly. A Man with No Soul deals with the question of the existence of a soul; that its religious definition makes less sense if examined. Rosas New Song is about a young woman who grew up in the city, and when she visited the village as an adult, she experiences a cultural clash. Not A common Human Being is about journalists whose work is not really about protecting people from danger, but simply to report matters which sometimes do not work to the interest the victim before them. With Snow White deals with the fact that some African people aspire to live like European people at a cost that is unnatural; thus making a fool out of themselves.
Author : Barbara J. Shapiro
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520359963
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.