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1 online resource (234 pages) |
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Book collections on Project MUSE
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UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Archive Political Science and Policy Studies Foundation
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| Contents |
THE LAST LAWYER; MISSISSIPPI STATE PENITENTIARY AT PARCHMAN: June 21, 1989; PART I: 1997-1999; PART II: 1999-2006; PART III: 2006-2008; DUPLIN COUNTY COURTHOUSE: May 2, 2008; AUTHOR'S NOTE |
| Summary |
The Last Lawyer is the true, inside story of how an idealistic legal genius and his diverse band of investigators and fellow attorneys fought to overturn a client?s final sentence. Ken Rose has handled more capital appeals cases than almost any other attorney in the United States. The Last Lawyer chronicles Rose's decade-long defense of Bo Jones, a North Carolina farmhand convicted of a 1987 murder. Rose called this his most frustrating case in twenty-five years, and it was one that received scant attention from judges or journalists. The Jones case bares the thorniest issues surrounding capit |
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English |
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Rose, Ken, 1956-
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Jones, Levon
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Jones, Levon fast |
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Rose, Ken, 1956- fast |
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Lawyers -- North Carolina -- Biography
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Death row inmates -- North Carolina
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Trials (Murder) -- North Carolina
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Capital punishment -- United States
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
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TRUE CRIME -- Murder -- General.
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Capital punishment
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Death row inmates
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Lawyers
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Trials (Murder)
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North Carolina
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United States
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Biographies
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2009010826 |
| ISBN |
9781604733563 |
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160473356X |
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1282485474 |
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9781282485471 |
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9786612485473 |
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6612485477 |
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