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And if we consider the fact that it is not easy at all to be a successful lawyer and have a successful and rich personal life, it will be interesting to read Rogue Lawyer, as its story flows smoothly and it is also easy to follow Rudd and the other characters throughout the novel. He has failed at being a father as well. His son is living with his ex-wife and her life partner who hates Sebastian with a passion.

When cases combine and his son is in trouble, Sebastian jumps into action. This Analysis fills the gap, making you understand more while enhancing your reading experience. Rudd is a lawyer who works on the fringes of society. He takes cases that few other lawyers would risk their careers for and uses all measures to ensure that all of his clients receive a fair trial.

Following Sebastian as he defends high profile criminals and innocent citizens alike can be a tumultuous ride full of legal jargon. This sidekick will keep you on track! What's inside? It is meant to broaden the reader's understanding of the book and to offer some insights which can easily be overlooked.

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Sort of. Sebastian Rudd is not your typical street lawyer. He works out of a customized bulletproof van, complete with Wi-Fi, a bar, a small fridge, fine leather chairs, a hidden gun compartment, and a heavily armed driver. He has no firm, no partners, no associates, and only one employee, his driver, who's also his bodyguard, law clerk, confidant, and golf caddy. He lives alone in a small but extremely safe penthouse apartment, and his primary piece of furniture is a vintage pool table.

He drinks small-batch bourbon and carries a gun. Sebastian defends people other lawyers won't go near: a drug-addled, tattooed kid rumored to be in a satanic cult, who is accused of molesting and murdering two little girls; a vicious crime lord on death row; a homeowner arrested for shooting at a SWAT team that mistakenly invaded his house.

Because he believes everyone is entitled to a fair trial, even if he, Sebastian, has to cheat to secure one. He hates injustice, doesn't like insurance companies, banks, or big corporations; he distrusts all levels of government and laughs at the justice system's notions of ethical behavior" Author : Oregon.

Author : Thomas E. They have been moral and civic consciousness-raisers as we have navigated the zigs and zags, the successes and setbacks, and the slow awkward evolution of the American political experiment. But, as Imagining a Great Republic explains, there has never been just a single American narrative—we have competing stories, just as we have competing American Dreams and competing ways of imagining a more perfect political union.

Recognizing and understanding these competing values is a key part of being American. While the abolitionist movement has made a successful stride in recent decades, a small number of countries remain committed to the death penalty and impose it with a relatively high frequency. In this regard, the People's Republic of China no doubt leads the world in both numbers of death sentences and executions.

Despite being the largest user of the death penalty, China has never conducted a national poll on citizens' opinions toward capital punishment, while claiming "overwhelming public support" as a major justification for its retention and use. Chinese Netizens' Opinions on Death Sentences: An Empirical Examination uses a forum of public comments to explore and examine Chinese netizens' opinions on the death penalty.

Based on a content analysis of 38, comments collected from 63 cases in , this study examines the diversity and rationales of netizens' opinions, netizens' interactions, and their evaluation of China's criminal justice system. In addition, the book discusses China's social, systemic, and structural problems and critically examines the rationality of netizens' opinions based on Habermas's communicative rationality framework.

Readers will be able to contextualize Chinese netizens' discussions and draw conclusions about commonalities and uniqueness of China's death penalty practice. Author : Bruce A. He looks them over and does not approve. They are, after all, darker-skinned Hispanics. Such a cracker dive has zero appeal to any sensible black guy. Tadeo and Miguel order a beer at the crowded bar and do a passable job blending in. They get some stares but nothing bad.

If these fat, drunk rednecks only knew. Tadeo could take out any five with his bare hands in less than a minute. Miguel, his brother and sparring partner, could take out four. They order another beer and kill some time.

The table is covered with empty beer bottles, and all four are chomping away on roasted peanuts. At the far end a band cranks up and a dozen folks ease that way for a dance. Evidently, Peeley is not a dancer. They kill some more time. Partner and I sit and watch and wait, nervous as hell.

Who can predict the outcome of a brawl in a roomful of drunken idiots, half of whom carry NRA membership cards? Peeley and his buddy head to a pool table and get ready for a game.

Their women stay in the booth, eating peanuts, swilling beer. Before he can swing his cue, Tadeo hits him with three punches that no one can possibly see. Left-right-left, each landing on an eyebrow, where the cuts are always easier, each drawing blood. Peeley goes down hard and it will be a while before he wakes up.

Miguel, though, intervenes and lands a hard fist at the base of his skull. A beer bottle cracks and splashes just above his head. Miguel is right behind him, angry voices calling after them. They lock the door, then scramble through a window. He thrusts his right hand forward and it is indeed covered with blood. We stop at a burger place, and I carefully scrape it clean. The monster who killed the Fentress girls bound their ankles and wrists together with their shoelaces, then threw them in a pond.

Both she and Raley had light blond hair. Said it was too expensive. No one missed it. Partner and I speed away to Milo for another grueling week of lies. Typically, though, things do not go as planned.

The courtroom is once again packed and I marvel at the crowd. Gardy is in relatively good spirits. They keep him locked down in solitary, usually with the lights off because they know he killed the Fentress twins and the harsh punishment should start now. My spirits are better because Gardy took a shower over the weekend. We kill some time waiting for Judge Kaufman.

Huver, the prosecutor, is not at his table at His gang of Hitler Youth assistants have deeper frowns than usual. Something is going on. We run back to chambers to fistfight over something we want to keep away from the public.

But why bother? I walk into an ambush. The court reporter is there, ready to capture it all. Judge Kaufman is pacing, in his shirt and tie, robe and coat hanging on the door. Huver stands smug and grim-faced by a window. The bailiff shuts the door behind me and Kaufman throws some papers on the table. They do not respond. She signed it Marlo Wilfang before a notary public. Knock it off, Mr. I tell my version, accurately, perfectly, without a single word of embellishment.

She can recognize me. How am I supposed to recognize her? Does this make any sense? They are convinced they have me nailed.

She deliberately planned all of this. She bumped into me, had a conversation, then prepared this affidavit, probably in your office, Huver, and she is lying.

Do something, Judge. Get up off your ass and do the right thing for a change. I want a mistrial at this point. I want to provoke these two into doing something really stupid. Keep the jury out, call this fine young lady to the witness stand, and let me cross-examine her. She wants to get involved in this trial, bring her on. Her mother is obviously biased and unstable and I want her off the jury. I told her the same thing I would say to any other person on the face of this earth—your case is built on nothing but a bunch of lying witnesses and you have no credible proof.

We can come back in six months and have this party all over again. A fringe lawyer like me is constantly flirting with ethical boundaries. Jail time is a badge of honor. We go silent for a few minutes. The court reporter stares at her feet, and if given the chance she would sprint from the room, knocking over chairs in the process. At this point, Huver is terrified of a reversal, of having his great conviction frowned upon by an appellate court that sends it back for another trial. What he wants is that glorious date in the future when he drives, probably with a reporter in the car with him, to a prison called Big Wheeler, where the State keeps its death house.

Afterward, he, Huver, will find the time to chat somberly with the press and describe the burdens his office places upon him. State v. It will make his career. They were convinced they had me by the balls.

What foolishness. Nailing me with some bogus improper contact charge will not help their case and cause at this point. They have Gardy all but convicted and sentenced to die, and for fun they thought it would be cute to take a bite out of me. I insist on getting this into the record. Kaufman looks at Huver and both seem to lose air. The court reporter is getting every word. He has to make a decision, and a wrong one could jeopardize everything.

Gardy has to have a lawyer, a real one, and they simply cannot proceed with me in jail. A few seconds pass and tempers cool. To do so is to hand me some heavy ammo for the appeal. I have the right to defend myself. Pick your poison. They are listening because they are suddenly frightened and woefully inexperienced. They are novices.

Huver has sent only one man to death row, an embarrassment for any prosecutor around here. Two years ago he bungled a death case so badly the judge not Kaufman was forced to declare a mistrial. The charges were later dismissed. They are in over their heads and they have just blundered badly.

No layperson speaks like this. Did your office prepare it, Huver? Rudd sits over in the jail. Trots has said nothing so far and it would be wise if that boy just continues sitting there with that stupid look on his face.

What a moron. A trial often resembles a bad circus as various acts spin out of control. What began as a fun-and-games attempt to humiliate me now looks like a terrible idea, at least for them. Bennie Trots. What a joke. You would want him in the first chair. Glynna Roston. Huver begins fidgeting and stammering.

This, uh, just seems so unnecessary at this point. Huver retreats to the window, where he stares onto the rows of shabby buildings that comprise the Main Street of Milo. The air is strained and tense. A weighty decision must be made, and quickly, and if His Honor gets it wrong the aftershocks will ripple for years.

What follows is one of those episodes in a trial that frustrate litigants, jurors, and observers. Glynna Roston is dragged in, put under oath, and is almost too terrified to speak. She begins lying immediately when she says she has not discussed this case with her family. On cross-examination, I attack with a vengeance that seems to astonish even Kaufman and Huver. She leaves the room sobbing. Next, they drag in her daffy daughter, Ms.

As her story goes, she came home from the fights late on Friday. When she finally woke up on Saturday, she called her mother, who immediately called Mr. Dan Huver, who knew exactly what to do. They met in his office on Sunday afternoon, worked out the language for the affidavit, and, presto!

Huver was in business. I call Huver as a witness. He objects. We argue, but Kaufman has no choice. I question Huver for an hour, and two bobcats trapped in the same burlap sack would be much more civilized. One of his assistants wrote every word of the affidavit. One of his secretaries typed it. Another secretary notarized it. He then questions me and the squabbling continues.

Throughout this tedious ordeal, the jurors wait in the deliberation room, no doubt briefed by Glynna Roston and no doubt blaming me for another frustrating delay in the trial.

As if I care. I keep reminding Kaufman and Huver that they are playing with a cobra here. I repeatedly move for a mistrial. The motions are repeatedly denied. Late in the afternoon, Kaufman decides to excuse Mrs. Roston and replace her with Ms. Mazy, one of our blue-ribbon alternates. No one in Milo would be better. You could select twelve from a pool of a thousand and every jury would look and vote the same. So why did I burn so much clock today?

To hold them accountable. To scare the hell out of them with the scenario that they—prosecutor and judge, duly elected by the locals—could screw up the most sensational case this backwater hick town has ever seen. To collect ammunition for the appeal. And, to make them respect me. I demand that Marlo Wilfang be prosecuted for perjury, but the prosecutor is tired.

I demand she be held in contempt. He sends for a bailiff, one with handcuffs. It was so long ago. Plus, you insulted me. There are so many ways to respond to this nonsense, but I decide to let it pass. Nine to zero. You clowns should read your cases. Another large deputy joins our little parade. They take me through the back doors and down the rear hallway I use every day. For some reason we pause on a landing as the deputies mumble into their radios.

When we finally step outside, I get the impression that word was leaked. A cheer goes up by my haters when they see me frog-marched out, handcuffed. For no apparent reason, the cops stall as they try to decide which patrol car to use.

I stand by one, exposed, smiling at my little mob. He is stunned and confused. For sport, they shove me into the same backseat with Gardy; lawyer and client, off to jail. Guess who won? I chuckle for the first time in many hours. Gardy is amused by this unexpected change in routine. I have a knack for pissing off judges. Minutes later we stop in front of a s-style flat-roofed building with several additions stuck to its sides like malignant tumors. We park; they yank us out of the car and jostle us inside a cramped open room where some cops lounge around pushing paper and acting like badasses.

Gardy disappears into the rear, and when an unseen door opens I can hear prisoners yelling in the background. He stops, uncertain as to what exactly a jailer is supposed to do when confronting an angry lawyer sent over for contempt. He backs away. She curses, reminds me of how busy she is, then says all right. I call Partner and give him the update. I change in a filthy bathroom, carefully arranging my shirt, tie, and suit on one hanger.

I have to wear it tomorrow. The others break down too at this real knee-slapper, and I smile like a good sport. Always Spam on Monday. On the bunk beds are two young black men, one reading, the other napping. My two new cellies do not appear the least bit friendly.

At p. I love federal court, most of the time. She also sends a copy of her petition to my favorite reporter at the newspaper. The napper on the top bunk rolls over and joins the fun. An hour later, a jailer fetches me with the news that I have a visitor. I follow him through a maze of narrow hallways and find myself in a cramped room with a Breathalyzer. This is where they bring the drunk drivers. The Bishop stands and we shake hands. I thank him for coming but caution him about doing so.

Plus, he knows how to lie low and stay under the radar. He also knows the police chief, the cops, the judge—the usual small-town crap. The more we talk, the more I like the guy. We chat for ten minutes and he says good-bye. Common sense is not always my strong suit, but I decide not to start a fight with Fonzo and Frog, my two new partners in crime.

Instead I sit in my chair all night and try to nap. I said no to the Spam for dinner and no to the putrid eggs and cold toast for breakfast. Thankfully, no one mentions a shower. They bring me my suit, shirt, tie, shoes, and socks, and I dress quickly. I say good-bye to my cellies, both of whom will be behind bars for several years, regardless of the brilliant advice I dispensed for hours.

Gardy and I are given separate rides back to the courthouse. Partner is waiting in the hallway. Metro section, third page. No big deal—Rudd is thrown in jail again. Both wear smirks and are curious to see how I survived the night. You too, Mr. My lawyers filed it yesterday afternoon. An emergency hearing to get me out of jail. You guys started this crap, now I have to finish it. The bailiff hands over some paperwork and Huver and Kaufman scan it quickly.

Thought he was dead. He has no right to notify me to be present for a hearing of any kind. If the lawyers could vote for the craziest federal judge in the land, Arnie Samson would win in a landslide. If he starts trouble, tell the sheriff to arrest him.

The sheriff arresting a marshal. We have a trial to resume here. What kinda stupid question is that? I figure one night in the slammer is enough for your behavior. Hell, Judge Samson might throw the both of you in jail for a night or two. We eventually make it back to the courtroom, and it takes some time to get everyone settled.

When the jury is brought in, I refuse to look at them. So I give them nothing. This is an amateurish ploy designed to make my life even more miserable. He has no choice but to excuse the jury. We spend the next two hours haggling over whether or not the State has presented enough proof to keep going. I repeat the same arguments.

Kaufman makes the same rulings. My first witness is a scraggly, troubled kid who looks remarkably similar to my client. The Fentress girls went missing around on a Wednesday afternoon. They left school on their bikes but never made it home.

A search began around and intensified as the hours passed. By midnight, the entire town was in a panic and everyone was outside with a flashlight.

Their bodies were found in the polluted pond around noon the following day. I have six witnesses, Wilson and five others, who will testify that they were with Gardy on that Wednesday afternoon from around until dark. They were at a place called the Pit, an abandoned gravel pit in the middle of some dense woods south of town. Gardy was there when someone else abducted and murdered the Fentress girls. Or can it? By the time Wilson takes the stand and is sworn in, the jurors are suspicious. His scalp is skinned above the ears and yields to a bright orange Mohawk roaring down the center.

Sadly, he is. As rehearsed, we walk through that Wednesday afternoon. Huver annihilates him on cross-examination. Drinking, and drugging, just a bunch of deadbeats, right? Wilson does a lousy job of denying this. After fifteen minutes of abuse, Wilson is disoriented, afraid he might be charged with some crime.

Huver hammers away, a bully on the playground. But because Huver is not too bright, he goes too far. You kids keep a calendar out there at the Pit? That was the day. And Gardy had been there all afternoon. Evidently, when there is a crime in Milo slightly more serious than littering, the police rush out to the Pit and make accusations. Harass the usual suspects. Gardy says he remembers the cops asking about the missing girls. The cops, of course, do not remember seeing Gardy at the Pit.

None of this matters. This jury is not about to believe a word Wilson says. Next, I call a witness with even less credibility. They call her Lolo, and the poor child has lived under bridges and in box culverts for as long as she can remember. The boys protect her and in return she keeps them satisfied. She remembers that particular Wednesday, remembers the cops coming out to the Pit, remembers Gardy being there all afternoon.

For food! Huver makes this sound like she deserves the death penalty. We plow ahead. I call my alibi witnesses, who tell the truth, and Huver makes them look like criminals. Such is the lunacy and unfairness of the system.

But the witnesses who know the truth, and are telling it, are discounted immediately and made to look like fools. And to win, with no real evidence, Huver must fabricate and lie and attack the truth as if he hates it. I have six witnesses who swear my client was nowhere close to the scene when the crime was committed, and all six are scoffed at.

I show the jurors a map of their lovely town. There is no physical proof that the Fentress girls were sexually assaulted; yet every miserable redneck in this awful place believes Gardy raped them before he killed them.

The blood Tadeo brutally extracted from the forehead of Jack Peeley matches the strand of hair the murderer left behind in the shoelaces he tightly bound around the ankles of Jenna Fentress, age eleven. Partner and I leave the motel in the dark and are almost to Milo before we see the first hint of light in the east. I meet with the Bishop in his office as the town slowly comes to life.

He calls Judge Kaufman at home, gets him up and out of bed, and at a. All of what follows will be on the record. I lay out my options. If they refuse to stop the trial, dismiss the case, and send everybody home—and this is what I expect them to do—then I will either 1 issue a subpoena for Jack Peeley, have him hauled into court, put him on the stand, and expose him as the killer; or 2 go to the press with the details of the DNA testing; or 3 announce to the jury what I know; or 4 do all of the above; or 5 do nothing, let them get their conviction, and slaughter them on appeal.

For the tenth time I explain that Peeley 1 knew the girls, 2 was seen near the pond when they disappeared, and 3 had just broken up with their mother after a long, violent romance. They are bewildered, stunned, at times almost incoherent as reality settles in. Their bogus and corrupt prosecution has just unraveled.

They have the wrong man! They cling to their theories. You wanna argue that on appeal? I think Gardy Baker was involved in this crime.

I can get a conviction. I want to go forward. Meanwhile, Jack Peeley will disappear. At some point during the day, the judge and the prosecutor meet secretly. The rules of procedure prohibit such clandestine meetings, but they happen. These guys need an exit strategy, and fast. At this desperate hour, they are still more concerned with politics than with the truth. All they care about is saving face.

Partner and I return to the City, where I spend the day working on other cases. I convince the lab to e-mail the test results to Judge Kaufman, and by noon he knows the truth.

I get the phone call. Jack Peeley has just been arrested. A dismissal in open court would be far too embarrassing for the system, so the judge and the prosecutor have conspired to do it behind closed doors, and as quickly as possible.

I sit at a table with Gardy by my side and listen as Dan Huver limps through a tepid motion to dismiss the charges. When the paperwork is signed, Gardy is a free man. But a year in jail for an innocent man is pure luck in our system. Gardy is bewildered, not sure where to go or what to do. The town of Milo will never believe anyone but Gardy killed the Fentress girls, regardless of the evidence. This is what happens when the cops act on one of their smart hunches and march off in the wrong direction, controlling the rumors and taking the press along with them.

The prosecutor joins the parade early on, and before long it becomes an organized and semi-legitimate lynching. I slip through a side door to where Partner is waiting. We make our escape, without an escort of any sort, and as we speed away from the courthouse two tomatoes and an egg splash onto our windshield. Rich people tend to avoid death row. There are about a million people here, and when Link was finally convicted and sent away, virtually everyone felt some measure of relief.

Drug trafficking was dealt a severe blow, though it soon recovered. Several strip clubs closed, which pleased many young wives. Parents of teenage girls told themselves their daughters were safer. Owners of fancy sports cars relaxed as auto thefts plummeted. Most important, the police and narcotics agents relaxed and waited for the dip in crime. Link was sentenced to death by an untampered jury for killing a judge.

Soon after he arrived on death row, his lead defense lawyer was found strangled. On second thought, there must have been several hundred people here who truly missed Link, at first.

Morticians, strippers, drug runners, chop shop operators, and crooked cops, to name a few. That was six years ago, and once in prison Link proved capable of running most of his businesses from behind bars. All he ever wanted was to be a gangster, an old-style Capone-like character with a lust for blood and violence and unlimited cash.

His father had been a bootlegger who died of cirrhosis. His mother had remarried often and badly. Unrestrained by a normal family life, Link hit the streets at the age of twelve and soon mastered petty thievery. By fifteen, he had his own gang and was selling pot and porn in our high schools.

He was arrested at sixteen, got a slap on the wrist, and thus began a long and colorful relationship with the criminal justice system. Until he was twenty, his name was George. He finally settled on Link because he, George Scanlon, was so often linked to various crimes.

Link fit him nicely and he hired a lawyer to make it legal. Just Link Scanlon, no middle initial, nothing stuck on the end. The new name gave him a new identity. He was a new man with something to prove. He became reckless in his desire to become the toughest mobster in town, and he was quite successful.

He has been on death row for only six years and his execution is scheduled for tonight. Six years is not long on death row; on the average, at least in this state, the appeals drag on for fourteen years before an execution. Twenty is not unusual.

The shortest was two years, but that guy begged for the needle. Kill a judge and all the other judges take offense. A nomadic lawyer because of frequent death threats, Sebastian Rudd takes on a case involving a brain-damaged young man accused of murdering two little girls.

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