Chet Pleban

Broschiertes Buch

The Victims of Innocence

Beschreibung

Judge Joan Cardwell is back. As an assistant prosecutor many years ago, she prosecuted a black man for rape. After seventeen years in prison, Larry Jenkins contacts the Innocence Project proclaiming his innocence and seeking a DNA test. At the insistence of Cardwell, Karen Braxton, the elected prosecutor, resists the DNA test. Her resistance leads to an evidentiary hearing. As the evidence develops in the Jenkins case, the prior murder prosecution of Garner Lee, the son of Cassandra and Senator Winston Lee surfaces. Questions are raised as to whether that murder case was fixed by Braxton, Cardwell, Cassandra and Senator Lee to protect the senator's gubernatorial candidacy. Did the senator put Cardwell on the bench and would the favorable resolution of the murder case be a payback? As the Innocence Project and Jonathan Felbin gather the evidence for a DNA test, Braxton becaomes concerned. Something may not be right with the way Cardwell handled the Jenkins case. Did she prosecute and convict an innocent man who had spent the last seventeen years in prison for personal political gain? Was perjured testimony used to obtain the rape conviction? Although not involved in the decision to prosecute Larry Jenkins, Braxton was involved in the Garner Lee murder prosecution. Will her role along with the involvement of the Lees and Judge Cardwell be uncovered? Will Garner Lee who has repeatedly denied killing his girlfriend, Amy Deland, be exonerated with the identification of the real killer? Will Larry Jenkins be freed? Will Garner Lee and Larry Jenkins be vindicated? Or will Joan Cardwell, Karen Braxton, Cassandra and Winston Lee be allowed to remain in their offices as though they did nothing wrong?

Autor

Chet Pleban is a St. Louis attorney with over 40 years of both civil and criminal trial experience. Many of his cases are high-profile and involve law enforcement officers who find themselves on the wrong side of the criminal justice system. In addition to his criminal practice, he also represents people who have suffered serious physical injury and those whose employment was wrongfully terminated. In addition to his law practice, Pleban also provides legal commentary for radio and television outlets as legal issues of importance arise. He has been a guest lecturer at St. Louis University, Washington University, the University of Missouri as well as many of the local high schools, and regularly teaches Continuing Legal Education classes in Missouri and other states. His first novel, Conviction of Innocence, was a fictionalized account of a St. Louis police officer he represented who was accused of murdering a burglary suspect. The book was a three-year project that he wrote while spending the winter months in Florida away from not only the St. Louis weather but also the demands of a busy law practice. While continuing to write during the Florida winters, Pleban divides his time during the summer months between his home in St. Louis where he continues with his active law practice and his summer home at the Lake of the Ozarks.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Gypsy Shadow Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 550g
• ISBN-13: 9781619503601
• ISBN-10: 1619503603
• Artikelnr.: 59222520