Criminal Law

In the past 30 years, more than 2,700 innocent American prisoners - their combined jail sentences adding up to almost 25,000 years - have been exonerated and freed. Terrifyingly, this number represents only a small fraction of the number of persons wrongfully convicted each year. As a result, US jails and prisons are packed with men and women who should not be there, but for crooked police, false testimony, shoddy investigators, vindictive judges, bogus expert witnesses or, far too often, the colour of their skin and their economic condition.

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Police Sergeant Catherine Cawood may be a fictional character, but her bravery, compassion and determination exist in real-life policewomen serving across Yorkshire today. In The Real Happy Valley, former policewoman Alice Vinten reveals what life on the beat is really like for those protecting the cobbled streets and windswept hills of this historic county. From domestic abuse to kidnap, gang crime and murder, these women will stop at nothing to bring their criminals to justice and in the most extraordinary circumstances, they never fail to put others' safety before their own.

A DANGEROUS MISSION -- The Irishman is a ruthless mercenary who performs any task for the right price. His current assignment involves intercepting a dangerous package smuggled aboard the cruise liner Intrepid. If the contents reach Los Angeles, millions will die. But only if the Irishman fails. A DEADLY ATTRACTION -- When Adventure Cruise lines' security officer Skylar Davidson finds the stowaway, she recognizes him from a bloody shoot-out she witnessed at LAX airport. But rather than being frightened, she's drawn to the enigmatic Irishman, and quickly becomes embroiled in his desperate ...

These robots may become lawbreakers because of bad influences. Don’t abuse Gidget the Gadget. She specializes in geriatric care and will be your future caretaker. Taurus installs the dissembly meme into himself and his fellow household androids so that they don’t breakdown from cognitive dissonance from working for their lawbreaking owner. These robots won’t be held back by the Three Laws of Robotics.

Brooklyn Firestone lands a competitive internship at a law firm during her final year of undergraduate study. She’s been anticipating the day she can leave Colorado to attend law school back east, and she dreams of finding a brilliant and refined lawyer to marry someday. When a sexy cowboy comes into the firm needing representation for a crime he says he’s innocent of, Brooklyn tries not to be interested, but can she tell her heart what to feel? When a neighboring rancher cuts Wesley Golden’s fence line for the third time, he’s had enough. Wesley sends the man a scathing letter and ...

Worse than murder. More heinous than homicide. Ashley's mother wants justice. #Justice For Ashley is not just a shocking true crime story. It's an amazing, compelling true crime story. Ashley: a beautiful young woman. Utterly open to life and love. Yes, she was gullible, but she was the light of so many lives. Jared: Scum of the earth. A monster without a conscience. He did Ashley wrong. But, she took him back, because, well, that was Ashley. Her mother knew Jared was terrible for Ashley. She didn't want this to happen. But it did. Now, Kristine demands justice for Ashley. She wants her ...

"After Dinner Conversation" Magazine - September 2021 Evening Star: Two bullied school children decide to reveal their true selves to their classmates and suffer the consequences. Conscience Cleaners: A genuinely repentant criminal appeals to the court to have his memory erased of the crime he committed. The Room Above: A convicted criminal wakes to an erased memory and finds he is part of a strange government rehabilitation program. Appreciating Hate: Police do a wellness check to a home and find a man who has been systematically working to remove art that glorifies the vile. The Showing: ...

“Cops in the Wilderness” describes the chaotic abyss that American law enforcement now occupies. The population movement of the city dwellers to the countryside threatens to submerge rural police into the same precarious place that urban police now occupy. The Covid-19 Pandemic has highlighted the disastrous conditions of urban life which includes the rapid transmission of the disease in areas of high population density. The collateral damage has been the dramatic increase in violent crime and the introduction of civil demonstrations and riots to protest the response of city law ...