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  title info:
    title: Court of lies
  name:
    name part: Spence, Gerry
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: novel
  genre: Legal stories.
  genre: Fiction.
  genre: Legal fiction (Literature)
  genre: Suspense fiction.
  genre: Thrillers (Fiction)
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 349 pages ; 25 cm
  abstract: Lillian Adams is going on trial for the murder of her wealthy husband before Judge John Murray, an honorable man and an incorruptible jurist. Prosecutor Haskins Sewell is consumed by political ambition and sadistic hatred for the judge. He plans to advance his own career by framing Lillian and the judge, wrongfully convicting Lillian of murder in the first degree and then railroading the judge himself into prison. But he may have underestimated Murray ... -- adapted from jacket
  abstract: New York Times bestselling author Gerry Spence is one of the greatest trial lawyers of our time. In his novel Court of Lies, Lillian Adams is going on trial for the murder of her wealthy husband before Judge John Murray. Prosecutor Haskins Sewell, however, is consumed by political ambition and sadistic hatred for the judge. Murray is everything Sewell isn't--both an honorable man and an incorruptible jurist. Sewell plans to advance his own career by framing Lillian and the judge, wrongfully convicting Lillian of murder in the first degree and then railroading the judge himself into prison. But he may have underestimated Murray. A fast-paced, up-all-night courtroom thriller, Court of Lies is also a harsh indictment of today's legal system. The country has 2.3 million people behind bars and 7.5 million more on parole or probation. A major reason for so much mass incarceration is the dominance of politically motivated prosecutors, who over-sentence defendants for the sake of winning votes in their own elections and advancing their careers.
  note: Gerry Spence.
  subject:
    topic: Criminal defense lawyers
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Judicial corruption
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Legal stories
  subject:
    topic: Trials (Murder)
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Criminal defense lawyers
  subject:
    topic: Judicial corruption
  subject:
    topic: Legal stories
  subject:
    topic: Trials (Murder)
  classification: PS3569.P448 C68 2019
  classification: 813/.54
  classification: FIC031030 FIC030000
  identifier: 1250183480
  identifier: 9781250183484
  identifier: 9781250183491
  identifier: 2018045279
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180928
    record change date: 20250318215147.1
    record identifier: in00004171151
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng