Download or read book The Court of Last Resort written by Erle Stanley Gardner and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edgar Award Winner: True stories of miscarriages of justice, legal battles, and landmark reversals, by the creator of Perry Mason. In 1945, Erle Stanley Gardner, noted attorney and author of the popular Perry Mason mysteries, was contacted by an overwhelmed California public defender who believed his doomed client was innocent. William Marvin Lindley had been convicted of the rape and murder of a young girl along the banks of the Yuba River, and was awaiting execution at San Quentin. After reviewing the case, Gardner agreed to help—it seemed the fate of the “Red-Headed Killer” hinged on the testimony of a colorblind witness. Gardner’s intervention sparked the Court of Last Resort. The Innocence Project of its day, this ambitious and ultimately successful undertaking was devoted to investigating, reviewing, and reversing wrongful convictions owing to poor legal representation, prosecutorial abuses, biased police activity, bench corruption, unreliable witnesses, and careless forensic-evidence testimony. The crimes: rape, murder, kidnapping, and manslaughter. The prisoners: underprivileged and vulnerable men wrongly convicted and condemned to life sentences or death row with only one hope—the devotion of Erle Stanley Gardner and the Court of Last Resort. Featuring Gardner’s most damning cases of injustice from across the country, The Court of Last Resort won the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime. Originating as a monthly column in Argosy magazine, it was produced as a dramatized court TV show for NBC.

Download or read book The Court of Last Resort written by Matthew J. Flynn and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Federal Judge Adam Willow, a former Marine commando, demands perfect justice. Some defendants are acquitted by juries in his Chicago courtroom, but none survive. Set in Chicago in the late 1980's and early '90s, the commando Judge takes matters into his own hands. He starts when he is left alone with a defendant who has escaped justice, and in a moment of pure impulse, he kills the man. Emboldened by the experience, he goes on to murder more defendants. But when he kills a corrupt Supreme Court Justice, and an innocent man is put on trial for the murder, Judge Willow faces a crisis of conscience. He tries to save the defendant, but he fails. His law clerk, a beautiful Asian woman with whom he is having an affair, tries to soothe him. But in the end, the Judge must sit in trial on himself in the Court of Last Resort.

Download or read book Digest of the Decisions of the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States from 1887 1911 Contained in the American State Reports Volumes 1 to 140 Inclusive and of the Notes to the Cases Reported Therein Abandonment to Youthful servants Supplement containing index to all notes to cases reported in volumes 1 to 140 inclusive written by Edmund Samson Green and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book A Digest of the Decisions of the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States from the Year 1887 to the Year 1892 written by William Mack and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 1368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book A Digest of the Decisions of the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States from the Year 1896 to the Year 1900 written by Ernest De Los Magee and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 1550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book A Digest of the Decisions of the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States from the Year 1892 to the Year 1896 written by William Smithers Church and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 1352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Digest of the Decisions of the Courts of Last Resort of the Seveal States from the Earliest Period 1760 to the Year 1888 Contained in the One Hundred and Sixty Volumes of the American Decisions and the American Reports and of the Notes Therein Contained written by Stewart Rapalje and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 1250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Digest of the Decisions of the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States from 1887 to 1911 written by Edmund Samson Green and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Law as Last Resort written by Keith Hawkins and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the attrition of cases by studying decisions made about their creation, handling, disposal, and prosecution."--BOOK JACKET