Law Biography

Jess McDonald was a true crime junkie and Line of Duty sofa sleuth with a strong sense of justice. Under a year later, thanks to a controversial new initiative, she was a detective in the London Metropolitan Police Service. The Met Police's Direct Entry Detective scheme was aimed at turning people with no experience of the police into detectives. No Comment is Jess' candid, eye-opening and often shocking account, exploring the reality of being a detective in the Met and responsible for 'keeping London safe for everyone'.

The first Black man to become sheriff of a major city in the Deep South after Reconstruction, STRIVING FOR JUSTICE is the story of how a poor Black boy grew up in segregated Jacksonville, Florida, survived a violent racist attack by the Ku Klux Klan, and advanced through a blatantly prejudiced police force in the 1960s to become a national leader of police reform in America, who, as President Clinton recognized, broke down barriers, and whose innovative policing reforms created greater respect between citizens and police, lower crime, and safer neighborhoods.

With over thirty-nine years with the Lancaster City Bureau of Police and the Lancaster County Sheriff's Office, the author has seen it all. From high-speed car chases, shootouts, gruesome crime scenes involving murders and physical and sexual child abuse and murder of children and others. Full of short stories-some sad, some comical-this book takes you along as the author reminisces on some of the most impactful cases he encountered during his time on the force. Sit back, buckle up, hang on, and enjoy the listen.

The Fall of the House of Zeus tells the story of Dickie Scruggs, arguably the most successful plaintiff's lawyer in America. A brother-in-law of Trent Lott, the former U.S. Senate majority leader, Scruggs made a fortune taking on mass tort lawsuits against "Big Tobacco" and the asbestos industries. He was hailed by Newsweek as a latter-day Robin Hood and portrayed in the movie The Insider as a dapper aviator-lawyer.

Top political strategist Maya Rupert reveals how, for people of color, being real comes at a cost and authenticity is a privilege the marginalized cannot afford—that is, unless we change the system that keeps sending us the bill. . . One of Maya Rupert’s earliest memories was learning how to...

Una mattina di aprile del 1984 una chiamata cambia per sempre la vita del giudice Leonardo Guarnotta. Al telefono il consigliere istruttore Antonino Caponnetto: gli chiede di far parte del pool antimafia, costituito pochi mesi prima in un bunker del Tribunale di Palermo, al fianco di Giovanni Falcone, Paolo Borsellino e Giuseppe Di Lello. È l'inizio di una stagione investigativa e giudiziaria intensa e appassionante, che porterà alla celebrazione del maxiprocesso e a importanti condanne contro i boss di Cosa nostra.

Il libro presenta il percorso autobiografico di un protagonista delle grandi inchieste degli anni Ottanta e Novanta. I valori di famiglia, l'educazione e le tappe formative sfociano nella decisione di entrare in magistratura: la narrazione scorre rievocando la cultura del Sessantotto, gli omicidi dei colleghi Alessandrini e Galli; l'adesione a Magistratura Democratica; la clamorosa inchiesta su Licio Gelli e la Loggia P2 e gli altrettanto clamorosi "tronconi" derivati dell'inchiesta.

Burkhard Benecken und Hans Reinhardt, zwei der bekanntesten Strafverteidiger Deutschlands, geben Einblick in ihren Berufsalltag und verhandeln dabei die großen Fragen um Schuld und Moral. Ein hoch spannendes Sachhörbuch in bester True-Crime-Manier. Wie ist es, tagtäglich auf der Seite von mutmaßlichen Verbrechern zu stehen und für sie zu kämpfen? Anhand von eindringlichen Fallgeschichten zeigen die Autoren die Instrumente der Strafverteidigung und diskutieren dabei die Fragen, die sich jeder schon einmal gestellt hat: Hat der mehrfache Mörder einen fairen Prozess verdient?

When a defendant swears "to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth", most judges and barristers believe their evidence will be "nothing like the truth". In Nothing Like the Truth, Nigel Lithman, QC, provides an entertaining and irreverent insight into life in the criminal courts as barrister, QC, and Crown Court judge. Using his experience in true crime, he mixes tales of horror with humor and questions whether it is possible for defendants to get a fair trial.

Fue el hombre que encarceló a secretarios de Estado, se encargó de la aprehensión de la Quina -el líder petrolero más poderoso de finales del siglo XX-, que capturó al narcotraficante Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo y quien recuperó las joyas del Museo Nacional de Antropología. Esta es la historia de Javier Coello Trejo contada por él mismo.

Jens Møller Jensen ist der bekannteste Mordermittler Dänemarks. In seiner langen Laufbahn als Leiter der Mordkommission Kopenhagen hat er viele spektakuläre Fälle gelöst: u.a. die Ermordung der schwedischen Journalistin Kim Wall auf einem selbstgebauten U-Boot, einen aufsehenerregenden Schusswechsel in Christiana und einen Terroranschlag auf die jüdische Synagoge. In seinem Buch berichtet er von diesen und anderen Fällen - und konfrontiert die Leser*innen hautnah mit den Zweifeln und Anfechtungen, von denen auch ein erfolgreicher Ermittler nicht frei ist.

In this groundbreaking work of investigative journalism and true crime, Stacy Horn sheds light on how the subprime mortgage scandal of the 1970s and a long history of white-collar crime slowly devastated East New York, a Brooklyn neighborhood that would come to be known as the Killing Fields. On...

Producer of television’s iconic Degrassi franchise Stephen Stohn tells stories from behind the scenes and of making it in the music and television world in this star-studded, rock ’n’ roll trip through a Canadian show business explosion. Stohn, who has been at the heart of the entertainment industry for over forty years, shares a lifetime of experience and unique insights into how dreams are turned into reality.

Woman Lawyer tells the story of Clara Foltz, the first woman lawyer in the West. Famous as a public intellectual, leader of the women's movement, and legal reformer, Foltz faced terrific prejudice and well-organized opposition as she tried cases in front of all-male juries, raised five children as a single mother, stumped for political candidates, and urged the creation of a public defender to balance the public prosecutor.

Tonya Craft, a Georgia kindergarten teacher and loving mother of two, never expected a knock on her door to change her life forever. But in May 2008, false accusations of child molestation turned her world upside down. The trial that followed dragged her reputation through the mud and lent nationwide notoriety to her name. Tonya's life spiraled into a witch-trial nightmare in which she was deemed guilty before her innocence could be determined by a jury.

Even though she was still married to her fifth husband, Tina, an ex-prostitute from Las Vegas, rehearsed for her sixth wedding to a wealthy Maryland businessman, Robert Myers. Myers wanted his wife killed. Divorce was too expensive. Tina had proposed a blood vow. "You marry me and take care of my kids, and I'll have your wife murdered for you." This is the true story of the brutal 1979 contract murder of Mary Ruth Myers.

Ele se chama Antonio Carlos de Almeida Castro, mas é conhecido como Kakay e assim se apresenta, assim assina seus artigos, assim é identificado em suas entrevistas na televisão, assim é apontado por onde anda, Brasília, São Paulo, Rio, Lisboa ou Paris. Não é o maior e mais rico superadvogado brasileiro, mas é o mais conhecido e, desde os últimos quatro anos, o que mais se notabilizou pela defesa da democracia, no mais trágico momento de nossa História. Kakay não tem vários andares em um prédio, com salas entupidas com 100 ou 200 advogados.

RELENTLESS PURSUIT follows the personal mission of a Washington, D.C., federal homicide prosecutor who dedicated himself to bringing justice and closure to the family of a brutally murdered mother and daughter, a case during which the author's own father passed away.

Advocate discusses the travails of prominent politicians and other well-known individuals, focusing particularly on high-profile congressional and other investigations. Credited with developing the modern system for vetting Democratic vice-presidential candidates, Hamilton recounts his extensive vetting of vice-presidential, cabinet, and Supreme Court candidates-including Joe Biden, John Edwards, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Advocate is a richly detailed history of some of the most sensational and controversial events in Washington politics over the past 50 years.

A federal prosecutor in Mississippi for over 30 years, John Hailman routinely worked with federal agents, lawyers, judges, and criminals of every type imaginable. Encouraged by the acclaim for his earlier book, From Midnight to Guntown, he has opened even more of the astonishing cases within the over 35 boxes full of trial stories he carried into retirement. Hailman gathers colorful exploits of eccentric modern criminals from William Faulkner’s Mississippi, where savvy victims often outwit their criminal perpetrators.