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"In his first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, #1 bestselling author John Grisham and Centurion Ministries Founder Jim McCloskey share ten harrowing true stories of wrongful convictions. Impeccably researched and grippingly told, Framed offers an inside look at the victims of the United States criminal justice system. A fundamental principle of our legal system is a presumption of innocence, but once someone has been found guilty there is...
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"Rusty is a retired judge attempting a third act in life with a loving soon-to-be wife, Bea, with whom he shares both a restful home on an idyllic lake in the rural Midwest and a plaintive hope that this marriage will be his best, and his last. But the peace that's taken Rusty so long to find evaporates when Bea's young adult son, Aaron, living under their supervision while on probation for drug possession, disappears. If Aaron doesn't return soon,...
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Restitution is the body of law concerned with taking away gains that someone has wrongfully obtained. The operator of a Ponzi scheme takes money from his victims by fraud and then invests it in stocks that rise in value. Or a company pays a shareholder excessive dividends or pays them to the wrong person. Or a man poisons his grandfather and then collects under the grandfather's will. In each of these cases, one party is unjustly enriched at the expense...
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Este libro constituye un análisis de cerca de 1.700 cuestionarios que se remitieron por correo a personas presas en España, la muestra más numerosa jamás alcanzada en los estudios penitenciarios que se han realizado en nuestro país.
El estudio intenta visibilizar la experiencia de la prisión, desde la perspectiva del propio preso, un sector de población oculto a la mayor parte de la sociedad. Sorprendentemente, en España la población penitenciaria...
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En Esta es tu historia se aborda de manera sencilla y práctica el porqué, el cómo, el cuándo y el qué de la comunicación sobre los orígenes en adopción, resultando un instrumento de gran utilidad tanto para las familias que han adoptado internacionalmente, como para aquellos que están en proceso, para los profesionales relacionados con el mundo de la adopción o para otros profesionales en contacto con personas adoptadas.
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"In a stirring and succinct examination of post-Roe America, "one of the most successful and visible feminists of her generation" (The Washington Post) takes on what's become the country's most resonant political issue. In her most urgent book yet, New York Times bestselling author Jessica Valenti shines a light on the conservative assault on women's freedom, cutting through the misinformation and overwhelm to inform, engage, and enrage. From the...
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In Sorting Sexualities, Stefan Vogler deftly unpacks the politics of the techno-legal classification of sexuality in the United States. His study focuses specifically on state classification practices around LGBTQ people seeking asylum in the United States and sexual offenders being evaluated for carceral placement-two situations where state actors must determine individuals' sexualities. Though these legal settings are diametrically opposed-one a...
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I was in Law Enforcement for forty-five years. Thirty Years with the Jackson County Sheriff's Department in Illinois as a patrol Sergeant, and fifteen years with the Southern Illinois Airport as the Police Chief.
This book contains some of the calls I was on during my career. This consists of homicides, suicides, etc. There is also down time while on patrol, and I included some humorous things that we did during that time.
Hopefully, this will give...
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"The study of memory had become my specialty, my passion. In the next few years I wrote dozens of papers about how memory works and how it fails, but unlike most researchers studying memory, my work kept reaching out into the real world. To what extent, I wondered, could a person's memory be shaped by suggestion? When people witness a serious automobile accident, how accurate is their recollection of the facts? If a witness is questioned by a police...
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Sheriff Singleton began hi law enforcement career as a reserve deputy with the Lauderdale County Sheriff's Office in 1972. He was later hired as a corrections officer with the office and in February 1973 was sworn in as a Deputy Sheriff.
In 1978 he ran unsuccessfully for the office of sheriff at the age of twenty-six making him the youngest candidate to seek the office in the history of the county. After the election he continued his career with...
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¿Se debe permitir la eutanasia? ¿Es admisible la prohibición total del aborto?
¿De quién es hijo un nacido mediante gestación subrogada? ¿Existen
los neuroderechos? A estas y otras preguntas busca responder la bioética
jurídica, como herramienta para resolver casos complejos donde convergen
cuestiones éticas y legales sobre tecnologías que generan un fuerte impacto
social. Esta rama del derecho desarrolla categorías y parámetros de derechos
humanos,...
12) Color of War
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"Color of War" is a highly immersive tale that follows the stories of complex and multifaceted
characters-Brigg, Maxim, Alexsandr and John- and delves into themes of patriotism, personal
history, tragedy, law enforcement, and the resilience of the human spirit in the face of hardship.
This gripping tale explores an uncertain and chaotic environment in which individuals face
tremendous moral quandaries that question the very fabric of their values.
At...
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About the Book "Why don't we spend much more of our time studying the art of negotiating? Perhaps a major reason is that divorce is a process, and not much of our legal education is focused on the process. The goal of this book is to explore in detail the scope of knowledge and skills that would be appropriate for professionals who are involved in the negotiation of divorce agreements. This is a book about negotiating! And since all of this negotiating...
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In India, the quote "Justice Delayed is Justice Denied" is frequently cited in legal proceedings, orders, and judgments. However, its impact has been minimal, leading to a rising backlog of cases, especially criminal ones. This issue has been discussed at governance and judicial levels, yet the situation continues to worsen.
The author's conscience is compelled to address this proverb due to the severe mental toll on accused individuals in prolonged...
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Der Rosenkrieg ist vorbei!
Eskalierende Konflikte verletzen Menschen. Oft wiegen die Verletzungen stärker als der Konfliktgegenstand. Selbstbestimmte Mediation stellt das Gegenmodell zu schmerzhafter Konfrontation dar.
Das FLOTHOW-Konzept basiert auf Mediation als Konfliktlösungsansatz.
Im vorliegenden Buch wird dieses vorgestellt und an Hand von 10 Praxisfällen zum Leben erweckt. Alle vorgestellten Konflikte haben Immobilien als Streitgegenstand....
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About the Book This is the Truth concerns the very foundation of our Republic's promise to all Americans. Every official holding office is required to abide by this foundation through their oath of office. Violation of this oath of office has severe consequences of which the average person is oblivious. Our government is based on authority and jurisdiction. The essentials are simplified here for the common person to understand so that they can hold...
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With the presidential election looming, Democratic senator Alexander Chastain is quickly climbing in the polls, with his Midwestern charm, movie star good looks, and stance that the U.S. needs to stay out of the Middle East. But as his campaign drives on, he makes enemies along the way, leading to a fateful rally in his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, where three men - each with his own agenda - wait in the wings, holding the fate of the election and...
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La estructura de esta Guía Fácil del Proceso Civil de Declaración permite ubicar rápidamente los elementos, temas o cuestiones relevantes para disponer de forma rápida la información precisa ante la posibilidad de plantear un proceso . El índice nos lleva a cada uno de esos elementos, temas o cuestiones cuando nos planteamos el cómo y el cuándo de un proceso.
Los esquemas o mapas conceptuales, facilitan mediante el uso de colores los puntos...
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En una de las novelas de Leonardo Padura se cuenta que un pintor explica a su aprendiz su pasión por el autorretrato: "porque es un diálogo sólo entre el cuadro y yo". De la misma manera, siento, en esta segunda edición, que los derechos contenidos en los hechos que en este libro se narran son un diálogo que me autorretrata. En esa novela también le explica que el misterio al pintar el retrato de una persona está en dar a conocer el momento...
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In the first comprehensive study of election law since the Supreme Court decided Bush v. Gore, Richard L. Hasen rethinks the Court's role in regulating elections. Drawing on the case files of the Warren, Burger, and Rehnquist courts, Hasen roots the Court's intervention in political process cases to the landmark 1962 case, Baker v. Carr. The case opened the courts to a variety of election law disputes, to the point that the courts now control and...
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