Summary: A fiercely independent woman is gang raped, then battles the legal system twice, going after both her attackers and the onlookers whose cheering fueled and encouraged the assault.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2002
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Smith, B. J. (Brad J.)
Summary: "After ten years' absence and a spell in prison, Carl Burns has returned to his hometown of Rose City to offer support to his estranged daughter Kate, currently one of four witnesses testifying against former Mayor Joseph Sanderson III, who stands accused of multiple counts of underage rape. Carl is determined to get justice for Kate, whatever it takes. But with his former sister-in-law Frances...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Publishers Ltd 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMISweet, John Wood
Summary: Summer, 1793. A crime was committed in the back room of a New York brothel-- the kind of crime that even victims usually kept secret. Instead, seventeen-year-old seamstress Lanah Sawyer charged a gentleman with rape. Her accusation sparked a raw courtroom drama and a relentless struggle for vindication that threatened both Lanah's and her assailant's lives. The trial exposed a predatory sexual...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345.73 SWESummary: Based on Harper Lee's novel about a lawyer defending a black man accused of raping a white woman.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2022
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In a racially divided Alabama town in the 1930s, widowed lawyer Atticus Finch agrees to defend a young black man accused of raping a white woman, teaching his children valuable lessons about prejudice and empathy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie To Kill 2012Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TO NOT RATEDSlaughter, Karin
Summary: When a big case is handed to defense attorney Leigh Collier, it could transform her career, if she wins. But when she meets the accused, she knows him. And he knows her. More to the point, he knows all her dark secrets.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC SLASummary: In 1931, two white women stepped from a boxcar in Paint Rock, Alabama to make a shocking accusation: they had been raped by nine black teenagers on a train. So began one of the most significant legal fights of the twentieth century. The trials of the nine young men would draw North and South into their sharpest conflict since the Civil War, yield two momentous Supreme Court decisions and give...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2005
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Slaughter, Karin
Summary: "AN ORDINARY LIFE ... Leigh Collier has worked hard to build what looks like a normal life. She has a good job as a defense attorney, a daughter doing well in school, and even her divorce is relatively civilized-her life is just as unremarkable as she'd always hoped it would be. HIDES A DEVASTATING PAST ... But Leigh's ordinary life masks a childhood which was far from average ... a childhood...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021