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Mercy On Trial - Couverture souple

Will, Wendell

 
9780595212149: Mercy On Trial
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 059521214X ISBN 13 : 9780595212149
Editeur : iUniverse, 2002

Synopsis

The placid life of retired professor David Neal is turned upside down when Lu, his wife of fifty years, is felled by a stroke and lies in an irreversible coma. David is presented with the terrible dilemma that could happen to any of us. Should he order his beloved Lus respirator turned off, ending her hopeless life? After a tortured inner struggle, David overcomes his doubts. But the doctors are blocked by David and Lus determined daughter, a federal judge, who will not consent to the murder of her mother. In a dramatic bedside scene David defiantly ends Lus life himself.The ambitious prosecutor with an eye on the governorship charges David with murder. David is represented without fee by a wizened attorney whose own wife suffered from an incurable disease. The headline-grabbing trial explores the moral, legal and psychological issues of mercy killing.Readers will not be able to stop turning the pages as one unexpected development after another leads to a surprising ending.Wendell B. Will, an experienced trial attorney, shows us first hand the maneuvering within the judges chambers, the fast moving drama of the trial and the tumult of the jury deliberations.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The placid life of retired professor David Neal is turned upside down when Lu, his wife of fifty years, is felled by a stroke and lies in an irreversible coma. David is presented with the terrible dilemma that could happen to any of us. Should he order his beloved Lus respirator turned off, ending her hopeless life? After a tortured inner struggle, David overcomes his doubts. But the doctors are blocked by David and Lus determined daughter, a federal judge, who will not consent to the murder of her mother. In a dramatic bedside scene David defiantly ends Lus life himself.The ambitious prosecutor with an eye on the governorship charges David with murder. David is represented without fee by a wizened attorney whose own wife suffered from an incurable disease. The headline-grabbing trial explores the moral, legal and psychological issues of mercy killing.Readers will not be able to stop turning the pages as one unexpected development after another leads to a surprising ending.Wendell B. Will, an experienced trial attorney, shows us first hand the maneuvering within the judges chambers, the fast moving drama of the trial and the tumult of the jury deliberations.

Biographie de l'auteur

In Mercy On Trial Wendell B. Will, an experienced trial lawyer, weaves an authentic page-turning thriller around a timely subject.

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Éditeur
iUniverse
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
059521214X
ISBN 13 
9780595212149
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
428
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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