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Theodore Boone

kid lawyer
Thirteen-year-old Theodore Boone, a legal whiz kid, gets caught up in a high-profile murder trial in his town.
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The sun does shine

how I found life and freedom on death row
2018
Anthony Ray Hinton shares how he was wrongfully convicted of two counts of capital murder, sentenced to death by electrocution, and able to prove his innocence and reflects on the twenty-seven years he spent on death row.
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The lives of Sacco and Vanzetti

the crime, the evidence, a global cause
2015
A graphic novel account of the lives and deaths of Italian immigrants and admitted anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, who were accused of murder in Braintree, Massachusetts, in 1920, tried, convicted, and executed, in a case that caused an uproar around the world due to the questionable circumstances surrounding the case.
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The girl on the velvet swing

sex, murder, and madness at the dawn of the twentieth century
2018
Chronicles the events surrounding the 1906 murder trial of millionaire Harry Thaw, detailing the victimization of teen actress Evelyn Nesbit and Thaw's public murder of architect Stanford White.
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Infinite hope

how wrongful conviction, solitary confinement and 12 years on death row failed to kill my soul
2018
Written by Anthony Graves who was wrongfully convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death, the text presents the story of his confinement and struggle for exoneration.
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A Time to Kill

1996
A murder trial brings a small Mississippi town's racial tensions to the flashpoint. Amid a frenzy of activist marches, Klan terror, media clamor and brutal riots, an unseasoned but idealistic young attorney mounts a stirring courtroom battle for justice.

Madapple

A girl who has been brought up in near isolation is thrown into a twisted web of family secrets and religious fundamentalism when her mother dies and she goes to live with relatives she never knew she had.
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Conviction

"A small-town boy questions everything he holds to be true when his father is accused of murder"--Provided by publisher.
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Justice failed

how "legal ethics" kept me in prison for 26 years
2016
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Imperfect justice

prosecuting Casey Anthony
Prosecutor Jeff Ashton presents his version of the 2011 Casey Anthony murder trial.
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