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"With his colleagues at the People's Law Office (PLO), Taylor has argued landmark civil rights cases that have exposed corruption and cover-ups within the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and throughout the city's corrupt political machine. The Torture Machine takes the reader from the 1969 murders of Black Panther Party chairman Fred Hampton and Panther Mark Clark--and the historic thirteen years of litigation that followed--through the dogged pursuit...
2) John Summers & Sylvia Corthorn: The Shocking Truth of an Ottawa Lawyer and an Ontario Superior Judge
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For most people, the premature death of Charles Floyd in the United States was yet another example of a racist police force gone wild. But the premature death of a Canadian black Jewish woman provides a revealing new perspective on police brutality and corresponding oppression in the Canadian legal system. John Summers and Sylvia Corthorn: The Shocking Truth of an Ottawa Lawyer and an Ontario Superior Judge exposes a cabal that includes the police,...
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The Canadian legal system is broken, and perhaps no other lawyer epitomizes that more, than Ottawa lawyer John Summers.
What can be, said of a lawyer who takes money from an undisclosed source that exploits a disoriented elderly man with diabetes and chronic high blood pressure to embolden his abuse of his wife? This is a man so disoriented that he has run through stop signs, when driving, drifted between lanes on an urban expressway, and become...
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In Mississippi, there exists a group of corrupt politicians and judges, dishonest law enforcement officers, and unscrupulous businessmen intent on enhancing their personal wealth and power. Through violence, terror and intimidation, they will stop at nothing in destroying the lives of anyone who might have the courage to oppose them. Murder, rape, assault, and political persecution are only some of the tactics employed to seek vengeance and stifle...
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This is the definitive biography of the famous crime fighter, Eliot Ness.
Behind the Hollywood legend portrayed by Robert Stack and Kevin Costner is a fascinating and highly effective lawman whose courage and cunning helped the federal government bring down Scarface Al Capone in gangland Chicago.
Ness went on to enjoy a successful law enforcement career in Cleveland, ridding the city of corrupt cops and organized crime figures.
You've heard the legend;...
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Qui sont ces êtres tristement célèbres ?
Ils sont devenus les couples de tueurs en série les plus tristement célèbres. Ils s'appellent Marc Dutroux et Michelle Martin, Fred et Rosemary West, Paul Bernardo et Karla Homolka ou encore Michel Fourniret et Monique Olivier. Ils ont commis les pires atrocités, les pires crimes. En couple, ils ont enlevé, séquestré, torturé, violé et tué. Les faits se sont déroulés aux États-Unis, en Australie,...
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«A l'encontre de l'idée reçue, l'éloquence n'est pas faite d'effets de manches. C'était peut-être vrai il y a un siècle ou même un demi-siècle mais cela a totalement changé aujourd'hui. J'ai eu la chance d'entendre de grandes plaidoiries, des plaidoiries que je qualifierais de "monumentales", énoncées d'un ton simple, sans formules "magiques", sans accents tonitruants, sans références littéraires, mais prononcées avec une foi et une...
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Un accident a eu lieu le 20 mars 1993, en pleine nuit, sur une petite route de campagne. Le désigné conducteur, âgé de 18 ans, n'avait pas son permis et était dans l'incapacité de conduire la voiture de son ami. De ce fait, deux questions se posent : 1) Pourquoi ce gamin n'a-t-il pas eu droit à une enquête, à des secours et à des soins normaux ? En réalité, c'est tout le contraire qui s'est passé, d'o le titre du livre. 2) Pourquoi les...
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"L'audience est ouverte : faites entrer la juge" est une autobiographie qui relate des enquêtes captivantes impliquant la mafia internationale ainsi que les milieux criminels lyonnais, corses et marseillais. Ce livre met en évidence l'importance cruciale de la collaboration des magistrats avec la police scientifique, les médecins légistes et les experts.
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Juge d'instruction à la JIRS – Juridictions interrégionales spécialisées...
10) Impact statement: a family's fight for justice against Whitey Bulger, Stephen Flemmi, and the FBI
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No one can deny that mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger and Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi are two of the most brutal killers in American history-not even the two gangsters themselves. But a jury denied the Davis family closure for the slaying of Debbie Davis, Flemmi's beautiful young girlfriend, who went missing in 1981 and whose remains were found nearly twenty years later under the Neponset River Bridge in Quincy, Massachusetts.
Now serving a life...
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