With The Guardians, John Grisham is back in top form with his latest legal thriller. Based on the true story of James McCloskey, founder of Centurion Ministries, The Guardians is thinly disguised as fiction.
Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brother were sharing a forbidden cigarette when a chance encounter with a suicidal lawyer left Mark knowing a bloody and explosive secret: the whereabouts of the most sought-after dead body in America.
John Grisham's new novel, Sooley, following the story of a basketball player from Africa to college and eventually the NBA, was inspired, in part, by UVA hoops alum Mamadi Diakite.
The FirmThe Firm is Grisham's second novel, and first of his works to become a bestseller. It inspired a movie adaptation starring Tom Cruise and is probably his best-known book.
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The man, under the influence of drugs and alcohol, reveals himself to be lawyer Jerome Clifford. Clifford tells Mark that he is about to kill himself to avoid being murdered by Muldanno, who has revealed to him the location of Boyette's body. Mark manages to escape, and Clifford then shoots himself.
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Grisham's new book, “Sooley,” centers on Samuel Sooleymon, a player for the North Carolina Central University basketball team, who perseveres through hardships in hopes of earning an NBA contract so that he can rescue family members from civil war in his native Sudan.
Samuel Sooleyman, is a 17 year old S. Sudanese basketball player who was chosen for an international travel team heading to the U. S. A. He's got some skills but is far from NBA ready. It's about 17-year-old Samuel Sooleymon, a native of South Sudan who comes to the United States to play in a basketball tournament.
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Grisham agreed that studios “would rather spend the big money on 'Superman' or 'Spider Man 5' or whatever.” “As we know, there are so few good adult dramas being made, you can't find one,” he said. He acknowledged it's especially confusing considering how well the adaptations of his novels did at the box office.
Timothy Hilley, Mack’s initial legal counsel, testified in a closed courtroom that Mack had posed a hypothetical to him at the end of a jailhouse interview, and Hilley viewed it as a veiled statement of intent to commit murder. Mack allegedly asked his then defense counsel what would happen if a witness was unavailable for the trial, a question Hilley took to refer to a witness to the July shooting death of 24-year-old Tavish Greene, the victim in the murder Mack was charged with.
From Panama City, Florida comes this rare legal ethics scenario. Darryl Mack, 22, accepted 20 years of prison in exchange for a no contest plea to a murder charge , after he learned that his original attorney in the case would be testifying for the prosecution. The revelation by an accused criminal’s own lawyer of what most think are privileged statements would be devastating evidence, which is why lawyers are almost always prohibited by the ethics rules from doing this. Mack had been trying to block the testimony on that basis. However, Circuit Court Judge James Fensom ruled those statements could be used against Mack at trial. Why? It is because of a useful and necessary exception to the ethics rules known as the crime-fraud exception.
Sometimes, though rarely, it is ethical for a lawyer to rat out his client. This was one of those times.
This article concerns a classic puzzle in legal ethics: what should a criminal defense lawyer do when the lawyer is certain that the client is factually guilty (usually because the client confessed to the lawyer), but the client insists on an all-out defense? Legal ethicists have struggled with this problem since the Courvoisier case in 1840, but it remains unresolved.
This article concerns a classic puzzle in legal ethics: what should a criminal defense lawyer do when the lawyer is certain that the client is factually guilty (usually because the client confessed to the lawyer), but the client insists on an all-out defense? Legal ethicists have struggled with this problem since the Courvoisier case in 1840, but it remains unresolved.
If a party refused to testify, then the judge/jury can take a negative inference from the refusal. Guilt or innocence is not an issue in a civil action. The issue is liability. And, a negative inference related to liability would mean that the judge or jury would believe that it is more likely than not the party...
Hi! Both parties in a divorce proceeding are presumed to be able to testify. If one party refuses, the Court can draw negative conclusions based upon their unwillingness to testify. It's not like a criminal trial, where the Defendant has a constitutional right not to testify. =)
Jeff and Lola Bronson go through a bitter divorce, with Jeff giving her an equity position in his aviation firm which he has an option to buy from her. They are about to test a new aircraft design with test pilot Bill Ryder, having only one more series of tests left to undertake.
One of the cases where the final resolution of the killer does not take place in a courtroom but unusually the ending clarification of the mystery between Perry, Paul and Della does take place in the courtroom.