The last lawyer : the fight to save death row inmates / John Temple.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Temple, John, 1969-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death row inmates--North Carolina.

Death row inmates.

Trials (Murder)--North Carolina.

Trials (Murder).

Capital punishment--United States.

Capital punishment.

Rose, Ken, 1956-.

Rose, Ken.

Jones, Levon.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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ISBN:

1-282-48547-4

9786612485473

1-60473-356-X

OCLC:

609863413