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Author
Publisher
Rare Bird Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
For seventeen years, small-town public defender Andy Hughes has been underpaid to look after the poor, the addicted, and the unfortunate souls who constantly cycle through the courts, charged with petty crimes. Then, in the summer of 2020, he's assigned to a grotesque murder case that brings national media focus to rural Patrick County, Virginia--Alicia Benson, the wife of a wealthy businessman, is murdered in her home. The accused killer, Damian...
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When she finally gets a breakout case involving a teenage Iraqi refugee, public defender Julia Geary throws herself into the case until she starts receiving vicious threats against her family and her client is left in a coma, pitting her against the town's most powerful forces.
Author
Series
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In the American judicial system, even accused murderers, rapists, arsonists, and child abusers have voices and rights; and as the Miranda warning says, if they cannot afford a lawyer, one will be appointed to represent them. Enter the public defender, who must try to help people who have done reprehensible things-no matter their personal assessment of the client and situation. Former PD Allen Goodman draws upon a deep understanding of that milieu,...
7) Gamechanger
Author
Series
The bounceback volume 1
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Rubi Whiting is a member of the Bounceback Generation, the first to be raised free of the troubles of the late-21st century. Now she works as a public defender to help troubled individuals with anti-social behavior. That's how she met Luciano Pox. But there's more to him than being a lightning rod for controversy. Rubi has to find out why the governments of the world want to bring Luce into custody, and why Luce is hell bent on stopping the recovery...
Author
Publisher
Optimism Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"How would you like to be judged for the rest of your life by the worst thing you've ever done? We all think we are compassionate just like we all think we are honest. But true compassion is not innate. Compassion for others, especially those that we don't know or understand, must be learned. Our lack of compassion is perhaps most extreme in the exercise of criminal justice, where a person's entire life, worth, and character are judged through the...
Publisher
AMC Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
61st Street follows Moses Johnson, a promising Black high school athlete who is swept up into the infamously corrupt Chicago criminal justice system, and Franklin Roberts, the public defender who takes up his case. While Roberts has promised his wife he'll retire, he takes on this case because he recognizes its potential to upend the entire Chicago judicial system, challenging the institutional racism and endemic corruption at its heart.
Author
Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Just weeks after graduating from the Dean's List from Tennessee State University, Keeda Haynes became an inmate at Alderson Federal Prison Camp, all for a crime she didn't commit. This was never meant to be her story. Her childhood was spent in church, band practice, and Girl Scouts meetings, and when she enrolled at TSU, the path ahead had seemed bright. Then one day her boyfriend had asked for a simple favor, to sign to receive some FedEx packages...
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