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" The last lawyer : "
John Temple.
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1027893
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b782263
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Temple, John,1969-
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The last lawyer : : the fight to save death row inmates /\ John Temple.
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Jackson :: University Press of Mississippi,, ©2009.
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1 online resource (234 pages)
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1282485474
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: 160473356X
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: 6612485477
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: 9781604733563
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1282486020
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1604733551
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9781282486027
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9781604733556
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THE LAST LAWYER; MISSISSIPPI STATE PENITENTIARY AT PARCHMAN: June 21, 1989; PART I: 1997-1999; PART II: 1999-2006; PART III: 2006-2008; DUPLIN COUNTY COURTHOUSE: May 2, 2008; AUTHOR'S NOTE
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The Last Lawyer is the true, inside story of how an idealistic legal genius and his diverse band of investigators and fellow attorneys fought to overturn a client?s final sentence. Ken Rose has handled more capital appeals cases than almost any other attorney in the United States. The Last Lawyer chronicles Rose's decade-long defense of Bo Jones, a North Carolina farmhand convicted of a 1987 murder. Rose called this his most frustrating case in twenty-five years, and it was one that received scant attention from judges or journalists. The Jones case bares the thorniest issues surrounding capit.
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Jones, Levon.
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Rose, Ken,1956-
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Jones, Levon.
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Rose, Ken,1956-
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Capital punishment-- United States.
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Death row inmates-- North Carolina.
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Lawyers-- North Carolina, Biography.
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Trials (Murder)-- North Carolina.
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Capital punishment.
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Death row inmates.
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Lawyers.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Penology.
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Trials (Murder)
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TRUE CRIME-- Murder-- General.
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North Carolina.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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364.66092
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KF373.R652T46 2009eb
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