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1) The verdict
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[2006]
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An alcoholic, failed attorney is reduced to ambulance chasing. A friend gives him a supposedly easy malpractice case which becomes a last chance to redeem himself and his career.
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In Saudi Arabia, two American missionaries are targeted by the infamous religious police-Muttawa. The man is tortured and killed; his wife arrested on trumped-up charges before being deported to the United States. Compelled by the injustice of her plight, young attorney Brad Carlson files an unprecedented civil rights suit against Saudi Arabia and the ruthless head of the Muttawa. But the suit unleashes powerful forces that will stop at nothing to...
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YOU DON'T NEED TO WIN, JUST DON'T LOSEIn politics, people cheat to win, or because they're afraid to lose. Which isn't always the same thing. A second Scottish Independence referendum looms, an unlikely investigator uncovers meddling in the first, and desperate conspirators panic, with deadly results. Bastard Verdict weaves high stakes and low politics into a noir tale of power, loss and Faustian bargains.When a Scottish government official enlists...
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FATAL JUSTICE
When Aurora Daniels becomes the target of someone seeking their own twisted justice, Sheriff Beckett Marsh is the only one who can rescue her. As a public defender, Aurora has angered plenty of people in town-and in her past. And while Beckett constantly clashes with the feisty lawyer professionally, it's his duty to protect and serve. Guarding her 24/7 is now his sole assignment. He may not have been able to save his fiancée from...
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After a drug cartel abducts his sister, a young judge puts everything on the line to find her.
Kansas judge Ben Joel catches a death penalty case involving a local drug dealer with ties to a Mexican cartel. When his sister is abducted three days before the trial, Judge Joel is told what he must do to save her--cut the defendant loose utilizing a seldom-used judicial tool known as a judgment of acquittal. A call to law enforcement would expose...
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He has one chance to find the facts he's searched for his entire life. All he has to do is prove his Number One enemy is not a killer…
Daniel Pike has devoted his legal career to ensuring that no wrongly convicted person dies in prison like his father did. But he's still no closer to uncovering his painful family secrets. And after a terrible twist of fate, he's hired to defend his arch-nemesis who's been charged with a gruesome murder…
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9) Verdict
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Attorney Justin Samuels is being threatened by a criminal who has made a run at him and his famiy. He's had enough and starts to carry a gun in a shoulder holster. He takes lessons in handling the weapon and this gun-toting lawyer is ready when the man tries to hidnap the woman of his dreams.
10) Winter's Verdict
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Winter's Verdict is the second book in the Grace Restored Series. After graduation from high school in the small Oklahoma town of West Springs, Katie MacKenna decided to start her life over in Cleveland, Ohio. Taking into account her roommate and closest friend over the last couple of years in college, Jillian Shaw, was murdered by a serial rapist on campus just before break, Katie chose to stay on the nearly deserted campus instead of returning home...
11) Final Verdict
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First published in 1962, this is the biography of American journalist, novelist and screenwriter Adela Rogers St. Johns' father, Earl Rogers, a renowned Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer in the early 20th century. St. Johns draws on a succession of her father's well-known court trials, including the trial that centered on perhaps the most famous lawyer-client disagreements recorded in legal history: those that developed between Clarence Darrow,...
12) Excision Verdict
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The Ancients have returned. But are they allies or adversaries?Piran, captive of the company, plunges into their technology, seeking answers in their code. Deva, with the Heralds, is drawn into Haven's Deep, unsure if she'll be accepted as a guest or killed as an enemy. Ryann, sheltering with the Collective as the company close in, fears their sanctuary will become their grave. Keelin seeks answers with Tallia, but the shadows from her past could...
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A young black man is hanged in Washington, D.C. in 1954 shortly before the Supreme Court rules on the school desegregation cases. His mother hires a young, callow white detective to solve the case. He quickly hooks up with two much different black men. They solve the case, change history and change their own attitudes about race in this entertaining novel that may challenge your notions, too.
14) Deadly Verdict
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In this dizzying novel of speculative fiction, the legal system is picked apart for all the fault lines upon which justice quakes. Imagine a system wherein a pool of professional jurors is trained to judge evidence objectively. It's clean, it's fair, it's infallible. But when the jury foreman goes missing, the FBI puts agents Holland Byron and new recruit Wyatt Ert on the case. Soon other jurors go missing and turn up dead-as do their wives and husbands....
15) The Verdict
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A cheating wife. An estranged mother. But is she guilty of murder? Please raise your right hand.
An affair at work has cost Julia Winter her job and her marriage. There's no denying she has let her family down. Please remain standing.
When a body is discovered on the North Downs, it hits local headlines. But for Julia, the news is doubly shocking because the body was buried just opposite the house she lived in over twenty years ago. And it is...
16) Final Verdict
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Third in the Brad Norton Series. Criminal defence barrister Brad Norton is briefed to defend a wife accused of murdering her rich husband. The prosecution case looks water-tight. The trial judge is his arch-enemy. He must unmask the real killer during the trial. The final verdict could decide whether he takes silk. Another fast-paced courtroom drama set at the Sydney Bar.
17) The Verdict
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Born and raised in Algeria with an active political life in the 70's leading to his eventual emigration as a political refugee Elias Adam is the father of a family deeply affected by the new reality for economic and political migrants in Western Europe, victims of the new face of politics and some would say of Fear. This is his Book Of natural Rebellion
18) Fate's Verdict
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Fate's Verdict Engr Dr Naila Hina This high-stakes tale of intrigue and deceit takes readers on a journey through the galaxies, exploring the darker side of humanity's quest for power and the unforeseen consequences that arise when brilliance is tainted by the allure of the forbidden.
19) Citizen Verdict
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Marty Rockman, notorious producer of the hit reality-TV show "So Sue Me", has a brand-new concept: "Citizen Verdict". Each week a real criminal case will be tried before the American people, but this time they're also the jury. If the defendant is voted guilty in a death-penalty case, Rockman will televise the execution.
20) Angel's Verdict
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Mary Stanton's popular Beaufort & Company mysteries about a haunted law firm in Savannah, Georgia, have won her a loyal fan base. Bree Winston-Beaufort is happy for a break from her job as an advocate for the otherworldly when she finally gets a living, breathing client. But aging actress Justine Coville didn't walk into Beaufort & Company just to change her will. Soon Bree's investigating the set of Justine's latest film for clues regarding an infamous...
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