Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"At Vertigo 42, a bar high above London's financial district, Richard Jury meets Tom Williamson - a friend of a friend who is convinced his wife, Tess, was murdered 17 years ago. Tess's death was ruled accidental - a fall caused by vertigo - but Jury agrees to re-examine the case. A young girl's fatal fall at a children's party 22 years ago at Tom and Tess's home may be connected. After an elegantly dressed woman falls from a tower near a pub that...
Author
Language
English
Description
In Biloxi, Mississippi, a woman sues a tobacco company for the death of her husband from lung cancer. The protagonists are a jury fixer, that is a lawyer whose role is to assure a jury favorable to the company, and a rogue juror whom the fixer cannot eliminate or control. This is a landmark tobacco trial with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake which begins routinely, then swerves mysteriously off course. The jury is behaving strangely, and at...
Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 17
Language
English
Description
In The Blue Last, Richard Jury finally faces the last thing in the world he wants to deal with—the war that killed his mother, his father, his childhood. Mickey Haggerty, a DCI with the London City police, has asked for Jury's help. Two skeletons have been unearthed in the City during the excavation of London's last bombsite, where once a pub stood called the The Blue Last. Mickey believes that a child who survived the bombing has been...
Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 16
Language
English
Description
Detective Richard Jury is back in the 16th novel in Martha Grimes' extraordinary New York Times bestselling series—now enmeshed in a series of strange crimes and disappearances, and an age-old tragedy that consumes his sidekick Melrose Plant....
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1970, one of Mississippi's more colorful weekly newspapers went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by a 23 year-old college dropout, named Willie Traynor. The future of the paper looked grim until a young mother was brutally raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgitt family. Willie Traynor reported all the gruesome details and the paper began to prosper. The murderer, Danny Padgitt was tried before...
Author
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author Barbara Delinsky understands the power of the human heart as few others and she shares that gift in this touching novel of acceptance and fulfillment, first published in 1983.
Sitting in a Vermont jury room, Abby Barnes is happy to be empaneled. The trial is a sensational headline-grabber, and the thought of being sequestered for a few weeks is appealing. The time away from a relationship that fails to excite
...Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 21
Language
English
Description
Richard Jury investigates the death of a wealthy bachelor with a mysterious past who was last seen in a club named Dust.
Author
Series
Richard Jury mysteries volume 20
Language
English
Description
"The dog came back."
"This is a joke, right?"
"No, it isn't…So do you want to hear the rest of it?" Dumbly, Jury nodded.
The rest of it is told by Harry Johnson, who sits down by Richard Jury in the tavern, The Old Wine Shades. Over three successive nights, Harry spins out this story of a good friend of his whose wife and son (and dog) disappeared one day when they were Surrey. No trace, no clue, no lead...
"This is a joke, right?"
"No, it isn't…So do you want to hear the rest of it?" Dumbly, Jury nodded.
The rest of it is told by Harry Johnson, who sits down by Richard Jury in the tavern, The Old Wine Shades. Over three successive nights, Harry spins out this story of a good friend of his whose wife and son (and dog) disappeared one day when they were Surrey. No trace, no clue, no lead...
13) The knowledge
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In the latest series outing, The Knowledge, the Scotland Yard detective nearly meets his match in a Baker Street Irregulars-like gang of kids and a homicide case that reaches into east Africa. Robbie Parsons is one of London's finest, a black cab driver who knows every street, every theater, every landmark in the city by heart. In his backseat is a man with a gun in his hand--a man who brazenly committed a crime in front of the Artemis Club, a rarefied...
Author
Language
English
Description
In a passionate warning that is not only well-reasoned, as becomes a renowned former trial lawyer and present federal judge, but is also a compelling and entertaining read, William L. Dwyer defies those who would abolish our jury system and hand over its power to judges or to panels of "experts." He aims, by making his readers aware of what should be done, to help us save what he calls "America's most democratic institution."
In an overview of litigation's...
Author
Language
English
Description
If you want to know what real, live jurors have to say about witnesses, judges, and lawyers, then this is the book for you. James Stanton and Trey Cox articulate ten rules every trial lawyer should know and use every time he or she appears before a jury. These are not lawyer rules; these are The Texas Jury Rules. The Rules are based on hours and hours of actual juror responses in post-trial, video-taped interviews. Before your next trial, arm yourself...
Author
Language
English
Description
The Jamaican legal system can be a complicated and intimidating thing, especially for those that have had no prior experience with it.This book is to inform those of us that have been called to serve as jurors what to expect. At the time when I was called to serve as a juror, I had a hard time finding out what the details were and exactly what to expect. I had never stepped into a courtroom before, and this was my first experience with the Jamaican...
Author
Language
Español
Description
La relativa singularidad del caso colombiano en el contexto latinoamericano orienta el objetivo de este libro: indagar en la omisión del juicio político como herramiente para juzgar presidentes y expresidentes democráticamente electos en Colombia. Pese a la existencia de pruebas que podrían relacionar a presidentes con actos de corrupción y violaciones a la Constitución, el Congreso históricamente no ha iniciado una investigación y un potencial...
Author
Language
English
Description
Juries have a bad reputation. Often jurors are seen as incompetent, biased and unpredictable, and jury trials are seen as a waste of time and money. In fact, so few criminal and civil cases reach a jury today that trial by jury is on the verge of extinction. Juries are being replaced by mediators, arbitrators and private judges. The wise trial of "Twelve Angry Men" has become a fiction. As a result, a foundation of American democracy is about to vanish.
The...
Author
Language
English
Description
Storytelling is primal for humans-one of the few human traits that is truly universal across cultures and through all of known history. The goal of Storytelling for the Defense is to help defense attorneys understand and reclaim the fundamental value of storytelling in the context of persuading jurors and winning cases. Defense attorneys must realize that the power of the narrative is not the sole purview of the plaintiff. The book demonstrates that...
In Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Jackson County Oregon can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request