Innocent, Your Honor
Title | Innocent, Your Honor PDF eBook |
Author | Danny Shanahan |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 136 |
Release | 2005-04 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
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From "New Yorker" cartoonist Shanahan comes the first book to exclusively feature his work, with a lawyer theme sure to find a popular audience.
Her Honor
Title | Her Honor PDF eBook |
Author | LaDoris Hazzard Cordell |
Publisher | Celadon Books |
Total Pages | 196 |
Release | 2021-10-26 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 125026958X |
In Her Honor, Judge LaDoris Hazzard Cordell provides a rare and thought-provoking insider account of our legal system, sharing vivid stories of the cases that came through her courtroom and revealing the strengths, flaws, and much-needed changes within our courts. Judge Cordell, the first African American woman to sit on the Superior Court of Northern California, knows firsthand how prejudice has permeated our legal system. And yet, she believes in the system. From ending school segregation to legalizing same-sex marriage, its progress relies on legal professionals and jurors who strive to make the imperfect system as fair as possible. Her Honor is an entertaining and provocative look into the hearts and minds of judges. Cordell takes you into her chambers where she haggles with prosecutors and defense attorneys and into the courtroom during jury selection and sentencing hearings. She uses real cases to highlight how judges make difficult decisions, all the while facing outside pressures from the media, law enforcement, lobbyists, and the friends and families of the people involved. Cordell’s candid account of her years on the bench shines light on all areas of the legal system, from juvenile delinquency and the shift from rehabilitation to punishment, along with the racial biases therein, to the thousands of plea bargains that allow our overburdened courts to stay afloat—as long as innocent people are willing to plead guilty. There are tales of marriages and divorces, adoptions, and contested wills—some humorous, others heartwarming, still others deeply troubling. Her Honor is for anyone who’s had the good or bad fortune to stand before a judge or sit on a jury. It is for true-crime junkies and people who vote in judicial elections. Most importantly, this is a book for anyone who wants to know what our legal system, for better or worse, means to the everyday lives of all Americans.
Guilty But Innocent
Title | Guilty But Innocent PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Prucnel |
Publisher | Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | 444 |
Release | 2005-09 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1413479669 |
Sinful
Title | Sinful PDF eBook |
Author | Victor McGlothin |
Publisher | Kensington Publishing Corp. |
Total Pages | 361 |
Release | 2009-08-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0758245084 |
Everybody's got a weakness and Chandelle Hutchins' is a love of material possessions. With her marriage crumbling under a mountain of debt, it may just be easier for her husband Marvin to walk away. But with Chandelle's scheming cousin Dior in town, money may be the least of the couple's problems. . . Dior's weakness is her appetite for causing trouble—and her latest target is her cousin's marriage. But Dior is being trailed by her own troublemaker who refuses to release Dior from her twisted duties as nanny and mistress. Fortunately for everyone involved, the Lord works in mysterious ways. For despite a tangle of lies, manipulation, and mayhem, a series of unexpected events is about to bless everyone with a much needed second chance. . .
Records & Briefs New York State Appellate Division
Title | Records & Briefs New York State Appellate Division PDF eBook |
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Total Pages | 1168 |
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Jailed for Freedom
Title | Jailed for Freedom PDF eBook |
Author | Doris Stevens |
Publisher | Black Dog & Leventhal |
Total Pages | 464 |
Release | 2020-03-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0762496932 |
The 100th-anniversary special edition of Jailed for Freedom, the essential history and first-person account of the courageous and militant suffragists who fought for their right to vote. First published in 1920, Jailed for Freedom is the courageous, true story of the militant suffragists who organized some of the first-ever, large scale demonstrations and protests on Washington. At a time when President Woodrow Wilson's administration refused to acknowledge women's voting rights as a tangible issue, the National Woman's Party coalesced, organized, and fought a fierce battle for the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment with heroism, bravery, and radical vigilance. What makes Jailed for Freedom especially compelling and such an important contribution to women's history is that it is a personal testimony from a suffragist who persevered through it. With depth and clarity, Doris Stevens details the bravery of the women who picketed daily outside the White House, opened themselves up to ridicule and physical violence, were arrested on no viable charges, jailed when they chose not to pay fines, and even beaten and force-fed when they went on hunger strikes. Including a new introduction from suffrage historian Angela P. Dodson, author of Remember the Ladies, and accompanied with poignant, archival illustrations, Jailed for Freedom is a tribute to the women and acts it took the pass the Nineteenth Amendment, apropos of radical activism that is still mobilizing in politics today.
Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court
Title | Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court PDF eBook |
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Total Pages | 990 |
Release | 1832 |
Genre | Law reports, digests, etc |
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