A Criminal Appeal - Couverture souple

Schanker, D. R.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0440235812 ISBN 13 : 9780440235811

Editeur : Dell Pub Co, 2000

Synopsis

When a thirteen-year-old deaf black child is convicted of a murder he did not commit, Nora Lumsey, a recent law school graduate and clerk at the Indiana Court of Appeals, is drawn into the case as she sets out to find the real killer and encounters a world of harsh injustice and high-level cover-up. A 1999 Edgar Award Nominee for Best First Novel. Reprint.

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esn't always set you free. Sometimes it takes a damn good lawyer.<br><br>Big-boned, farm-bred, and fresh out of law school, Nora Lumsey has just landed a great job as an Indiana judge's law clerk. Then the Dexter Hinton case lands in her lap: An elderly white woman dies in a drive-by shooting. Two black kids are in the car. Dexter, ten years old and deaf, confesses. He gets fifty-five years. <br><br>Now the boy's distraught grandfather has written an appeal, and Nora's job is to draft the judge's denial. Turn the key and throw Dexter away.<br><br>That's her dilemma. The amateur appeal raises the wrong arguments. Nora knows the right ones. She also knows Dexter is innocent, convicted with lies and racism. Legally, she's forbidden to help. Morally, a big-boned woman is born to meddle...and perhaps risk everything for a young boy's life.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dell Pub Co
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0440235812
• ISBN 13: 9780440235811
• Reliure: Poche
• Nombre de pages: 341
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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