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Dismas Hardy novels volume 19
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English
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"Having joined the "dark side" after years spent prosecuting criminals as the San Francisco DA, defense attorney Wes Farrell is experiencing a crisis of faith. How can he in good conscience defend clients whom, in his estimation, are most likely guilty? In his role as DA, Farrell had helped put away Paul Riley, a young man charged for the rape and murder of his then-girlfriend Dana Rush, only for Riley to later be released from his life sentence -...
62) Amish fugitive
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"Daniel Miller's Amish community won't accept him even though he's been acquitted of a crime he didn't commit. When Lela Borntrager offers to help him find the real culprit, Daniel has a chance to prove his innocence. But a killer on the loose puts them both in danger. Will Daniel accept Lela's help, or will he sacrifice clearing his name to keep her safe?"--
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A story based on actual events from 1806 traces the arrests and executions of two innocent Irish immigrants, one a simple family man and the other a heartbroken man with a checkered past, who are falsely accused of murder and who face their deaths with the help of a tormented French Catholic priest. By the author of A Brother's Blood.
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"Interweaving his account of the Steven Avery trial at the heart of Making a Murderer with other high profile cases from his criminal defense career, attorney Jerome F. Buting explains the flaws in America's criminal justice system and lays out a provocative, persuasive blue-print for reform. Over his career, Jerome F. Buting has spent hundreds of hours in courtrooms representing defendants in criminal trials. When he agreed to join Dean Strang as...
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New York Times bestselling author and renowned prosecuting attorney Robert K. Tanenbaum provides the first insider's account of the historic Wylie-Hoffert case, from the shocking double-murder to the wrenching interrogation of an innocent young man, and the heroic Assistant District Attorney who risked everything to unravel a disgraceful injustice
Chronicle of the infamous Career Girls Murders, a case that led to the Supreme Court's enactment of...
66) A star is dead
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Hollywood diva Jessica Gray is finishing the last leg of her one-woman show in St Louis, Missouri, and the nearby town of Chouteau Forest is dazzled. During the show she humiliates three homeless women, fires her entourage and makes a bitter enemy of the town's powerful patriarch. She collapses at an after-show party and is rushed to the hospital, but she ignores the advice of her doctors and discharges herself in order to return to LA. On the...
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Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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Violence, drug material, language, some sexuality and thematic elements
Life seems perfect for John Brennan until his wife, Lara, is arrested for a murder she says she didn't commit. Three years into her sentence, John is struggling to hold his family together, raising their son and teaching at college while he pursues every means available to prove her innocence. With the rejection of their final appeal, Lara becomes suicidal and John decides there...
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Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2022.
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xii, 272 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Adapted for young readers, this true story follows a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit and how he transformed not only his own spirit, but those of his fellow inmates, until his release in 2015.
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Spenser novels volume 40
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English
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Spenser takes up a seemingly open and closed cold case at the behest of a street-wise teen-age girl, who believes her mother's murderers went free. As Spenser digs deeper into the mystery, he finds a much more dangerous and complex mystery than he bargained for. When fourteen-year-old Mattie Sullivan asks Spenser to look into her mother's murder, he's not completely convinced by her claim that the police investigation four years ago was botched. Mattie...
70) An innocent man
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Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
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1 Blu-ray videodisc (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A man is framed as a drug dealer and sent to prison by a pair of crooked cops. He tries to prove his innocence, but everyone in jail claims they were framed
71) Stillwater
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Focus Features
Pub. Date
[2021]
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1 videodisc (139 min.) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches
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English
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A father travels from Oklahoma to France to help his estranged daughter, who is in prison for a murder she claims she didn't commit.
72) The wrong man
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
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1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in
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English
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The first Hitchcock film based on a true story. A nightclub musician is falsely accused of a robbery, an accusation that ruins his life
73) True believer
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
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1 videodisc (approximately 104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A once acclaimed civil rights attorney of the 60's, now an embittered cynic who makes a living defending drug-dealing low-lifes, has his passion for justice rekindled by an idealistic young associate and a case involving a man imprisoned for a murder he did not commit.
74) After innocence
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New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
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1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
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English
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The story of seven men who were wrongly convicted for crimes that they did not commit, whose innocence was conclusively proven years later by DNA evidence
75) Murder!
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Laserlight DVD
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c1999
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1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in
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English
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"Diana Baring is an actress who is caught standing over the corpse of a fellow actress. Even worse, she has amnesia and remembers nothing about the murder, or herself. Though she desperately tries to recall anything that can help clear the fog from her mind, her amnesia is complete, as is the evidence against her. She is convicted of murder and sentenced to die. Only one person believes she is innocent, but can he prove it in time to save her?"--Container...
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In Let Loose the Dogs, Murdoch's life and work overlap tragically. His sister, who long ago fled to a convent to escape their abusive father, is on her deathbed. Meanwhile, Harry Murdoch, the father whom Murdoch long ago shut out of his life, has been charged with murder and calls on his estranged son to prove his innocence. But, knowing his father, what is Murdoch to believe?
77) A dangerous man
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Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
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1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
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English
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After serving six years for a murder he didn't commit, ex-Special Forces operative Shane Daniels gets released from prison. Back on the street, he wields a devastating combination of street-fighting smarts and martial arts skills when he suddenly finds himself in a deadly showdown with international drug merchants and the local corrupt cops. They're about to discover just how dangerous one man can be when they stand between him and his newfound freedom...
78) Traceless
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St. Martin's
Pub. Date
2007
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viii, 340 p. ; 18 cm
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English
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English
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"1880's fast moving hard hitting western duo. Sheriff Ben Stillman, Johnny Nevada"--
"In the first, full-length novel of this gritty, fast-moving western duo, Once More with a Vengeance, Sheriff Ben Stillman finds himself in the unenviable position of having to arrest a young man for murder on suspicious evidence. But the cards are stacked against the young firebrand who calls himself Johnny Nevada. One, Johnny has gotten Judge Hoagland's daughter...
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