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After leaving the district attorney's office, Bugliosi wrote, jointly with Curt Gentry, a book about the Manson trial called Helter Skelter (1974). The book won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for the best true crime book of the year. [1] It was adapted twice for television movies (one produced in 1976 and one in 2004).
[43] Former Orleans Parish district attorney Harry Connick Sr. said it was "a travesty of justice", [42] and that he "thought it was one of the grossest, most extreme miscarriages of justice in the annals of American judicial history." [44] Journalist Max Holland also described the investigation of Shaw as an "egregious miscarriage of justice ...
Mark Pryor (born May 8, 1967) is a British-American mystery writer and Assistant District Attorney for Travis County, Texas. [1] He is best known for his mystery novels featuring Hugo Marston, a former FBI agent from Texas, and now head of security at the U.S. Embassy in Paris. [1]
Linda Fairstein (born May 5, 1947) [1] is an American author, attorney, and former New York City prosecutor focusing on crimes of violence against women and children. She was the head of the sex crimes unit of the Manhattan District Attorney's office from 1976 until 2002.
Erle Stanley Gardner (July 17, 1889 – March 11, 1970) was an American author and lawyer, best known for the Perry Mason series of legal detective stories.Gardner also wrote numerous other novels and shorter pieces as well as a series of nonfiction books, mostly narrations of his travels through Baja California and other regions in Mexico.
[5] [8] She worked as a deputy district attorney for Los Angeles County, California and was mentored by prosecutor Harvey Giss. [9] Clark is well known as the lead prosecutor in the 1995 trial of O. J. Simpson for the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman. [10]
Rage of Angels is a novel by Sidney Sheldon published in 1980. The novel revolves around young attorney Jennifer Parker; as she rises as a successful lawyer, she gets into a series of ongoings that lead to intrigue with the mob and a rival attorney that promises to break her life's dreams.
Nina Maurier Frost: Nathaniel's mother, Caleb's wife, an assistant district attorney who kills Father Szyszynski. Caleb Frost: Nathaniel's father and Nina's husband, a stonemason who later poisons Father Gwynne and his cat. Patrick Ducharme: A police detective and close friend of Nina's. Patrick expresses his love for Nina on several occasions ...