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1) The judge
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 141 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Big-city lawyer Hank Palmer returns to his childhood home where his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder. He sets out to discover the truth and along the way reconnects with the family he walked away from years before.
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (161 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. A courtroom drama of rape and premeditated murder is brought to life. A humble small-town lawyer against a hard-headed big city prosecutor. Emotions flare as a jealous army lieutenant pleads innocent to murdering the rapist of his seductive, beautiful wife.
3) Legal eagles
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A hard-nosed assistant district attorney and an imaginative defense attorney combine their talents to defend a spacey "performance artist" who is accused of theft and murder.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
James Curtayne was once a brilliant defense attorney, saving scores from prison-time and death row. But that was before a part of him crawled inside a bottle and never crawled out. He now practices civil law. It's safer that way. But when John O'Hara, a kid from the neighborhood, gets hauled up on Murder One, he allows himself to get cajoled into returning to his former vocation. It's a mistake. The DA runs circles around the alcohol addled attorney...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The film tells an inspiring and spirited true story that follows young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg as she teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the US Court of Appeals and overturn a century of gender discrimination. The feature will premiere in 2018 in line with Justice Ginsburg's 25th anniversary on the Supreme Court.
7) Evelyn
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Inspired by a custody case brought before the Irish courts in 1955, Desmond Doyle is a father fighting for the custody of his three children after abandonment by their mother. Due to the Irish law of the time, children could not be raised by one parent in what the courts considered a broken home, thus allowing the Doyle children to be placed in church run orphanages, where neglect and cruelty were not out of the ordinary. Desmond will take his fight...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Defense attorney Richard Ramsay takes on a personal case when he swears to his widowed friend, Loretta Lassiter that he will keep her son Mike out of prison. Charged with murdering his father, Mike initially confesses to the crime. But as the trial proceeds, chilling evidence about the kind of man that Boone Lassiter really was comes to light. While Ramsay uses the evidence to get his client acquitted, his new colleague Janelle tries to dig deeper....
9) Dark waters
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Inspired by a shocking true story, a tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths due to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything, his future, his family, and his own life to expose the truth.
10) Helter skelter
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (184 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The investigation of two horrific mass murders leads to the capture and trial of the psychotic pseudo-hippie Charles Manson and his 'family'.
11) Just mercy
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A powerful and thought-provoking true story follows young lawyer Bryan Stevenson and his history-making battle for justice. After graduating from Harvard, Bryan had his pick of lucrative jobs. Instead, he heads to Alabama to defend those wrongly condemned or who were not afforded proper representation, with the support of local advocate Eva Ansley. One of his first and most incendiary cases is that of Walter McMillian.
12) The jury
Pub. Date
©2002
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 284 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A comprehensive six-part series of a shocking murder trial and the jurors affected by it.
13) The Mauritanian
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The true story of Slahi's fight for freedom after being detained and imprisoned without charge by the U.S. Government for years. Alone and afraid, Slahi finds allies in defense attorney Nancy Hollander and her associate Teri Duncan who battle the U.S. government in a fight for justice that tests their commitment to the law and their client at every turn. Their controversial advocacy, along with evidence uncovered by a formidable military prosecutor,...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (243 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Don Quijote cabalga de nuevo: Don Quijote, quien está obsesionado con el título de caballero y sus códigos de honor, y Sancho Panza, su singular escudero, recuerdan las aventuras que han compartido. Un Quijote sin mancha: El pasante legal dedicado Junto ejerce los derechos de los desfavorecidos, trabajando con una amplia gama de clientes cómicos.
15) Just cause
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Harvard Law School professor reopens a murder investigation on behalf of a death row inmate who claims he was forced by a sinister lawman to confess to a crime he didn't commit. On the surface, it seems to be a straightforward case of the prisoner's guilt or innocence. But nothing really lies on the surface of this mystery, climaxing in the Florida swamplands.
16) Court
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 116 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An ageing folk singer is accused of performing an inflammatory song which might have incited a sewage worker to commit suicide. As the trial unfolds, the personal lives of the lawyers and the judge involved in the case are observed outside the court.
17) A time to kill
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A small-town lawyer is hired to defend an African American man who is accused of killing the white men who raped his young daughter.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A church destroyed. A congregation silenced. A relationship shattered. Yet even in life's darkest valleys, a small flame can light the way toward healing and hope. After a deadly fire rips through St. James Church, Hadleigh University leaders use the tragedy to push the congregation off campus, forcing the church to defend its rights and bringing together estranged brothers for a reunion that opens old wounds and forces them to address the issues...
19) The Children Act
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc ( approximately 106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Fiona Maye is a High Court judge in London ruling with wisdom and kindness over ethically complicated cases of family law. Fiona is tasked with ruling on the case of Adam, an exceptional boy who is refusing a life-saving blood transfusion. He is three months from his eighteenth birthday and legally still a child. Fiona visits Adam in the hospital and it has an extreme emotional impact on them both.
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 165 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The trial: A man wakens one morning to find that he has been arrested for an unknown offense, and must look beyond the judicial system to prove his innocence.
Escape from Sobibór: After an escape from the Treblinka, the Nazi commandant threatens the lives of the prisoners at Sobibór in case of an escape attempt, but since the prisoners know that they are only awaiting their executions, they plan a mass escape. A thriller based on a true story....
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