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3182) Shark: Season one
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Cutthroat defense attorney Sebastian Stark has made a career out of bending the rules, manipulating the system, humiliating prosecutors and getting ruthless criminals off the hook. But, with the blood of an innocent woman on his hands, Stark has a change of heart and takes a job with the Los Angeles District Attorney's high-profile crime unit, leading a promising but inexperienced team of young prosecutors and doing whatever it takes to deliver justice....
3183) The accused
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
[Widescreen version].
Language
English
Description
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.
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Attorney Perry Mason specializes in defending indefensible cases with the aid of his secretary Della Street and investigator Paul Drake. Often relying on his outstanding courtroom skills, sometimes he must use tricks or traps to get people to unwittingly admit their guilt. Contains 12 gripping episodes.
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
This is the story the public never saw of four high profile attorneys, Johnnie Cochran, Robert Shapiro, Barry Scheck and F. Lee Bailey in the O. J. Simpson murder trial. What started as a cohesive defense team ends up as a fractured and tarnished group of disagreeing attorneys vying for the spotlight and focusing as much on their egos as their defense of Simpson. The film is interspersed with real footage of the media coverage.
3186) The Mauritanian: DVD
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
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,...
3188) Perry Mason
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Fiftieth anniversary edition.
Language
English
Description
Although Perry Mason is a lawyer by trade, he and his staff Della Street and Paul Drake spend most of their time sleuthing. Unmasking the real culprit is the only way to free their always-innocent clients.
3189) Un abogado rebelde
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Primera edición Vintage Español.
Language
Español
Description
Sebastian Rudd no es el típico abogado: lleva arma y su oficina es una camioneta a prueba de balas conducida por su guardaespaldas, que a su vez es su asistente legal y único amigo. Difiende a quienes otros no querrían ni ver: un drogadicto, un chico tautado que supuestamente forma parte de un culto satánico acusado de acosar y matar a dos niñas pequeñas, un criminal en el corredor de la muerte, un hombre arrestado por disparar a unos...
3190) Zoot suit
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Lawyers seek justice for a group of Mexican-Americans being sent to prison. Based on the Sleepy Lagoon murder case and the zoot suit riots of 1940's Los Angeles.
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
LOVE AFFAIR (1932) -- Here he is enterprising, modest and occasionally perplexed as a working class aircraft engineer who is pursued and eventually seduced by a wealthy but jaded socialite (Dorothy Mackaill). Typical of the Pre-Code era, the film is notable for scenes of sexual suggestiveness and moments of refreshingly frank dialogue courtesy of Jo Swerling and Ursula Parrott.
KNOCK ON ANY DOOR (1949) -- A tense courtroom drama with undercurrents...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
In New York City, when a crime is committed, the victims are represented by two distinct yet intertwined forces. There's the police department, represented by the 27th precinct Homicide Detectives. It is their job to investigate the crime, collect evidence, and interview witnesses. Suspects are placed under arrest. The matter is then taken over by the prosecutors of the Manhattan District Attorney's office.
3194) On the basis of sex: DVD
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by the powerful true story of a young Ruth Bader Ginsburg, On the Basis of Sex depicts a then-struggling attorney and new mother facing adversity in her fight for equal rights. When Ruth takes on a ground-breaking case, she knows the outcome could alter the courts' view of gender discrimination. Stronger together, Ruth teams up with her husband, Martin Ginsburg, to fight the case that catapults her into one of the most important public figures...
3195) Locked up in America
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Wide screen.
Language
English
Description
Two Frontline episodes on the American penal system. Solitary Nation looks at life in solitary confinement in Maine's maximum security prison. Prison State addresses the problem of mass incarceration in America, focusing on four residents of a Louisville, Kentucky housing project as they cycle in and out of the state's prison system.
3196) Dark waters: DVD
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
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. --
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Using actual legal teams, witnesses, evidence, and courtroom procedure, presents a fictional but unscripted trial charging Officer Daniel Pantaleo of the New York Police Department for reckless manslaughter and strangulation in the first degree for the death of Eric Garner, who died in a chokehold in 2014.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
In New York City, when a crime is committed, the victims are represented by two distinct yet intertwined forces. There's the police department, represented by the 27th precinct Homicide Detectives. It is their job to investigate the crime, collect evidence, and interview witnesses. Suspects are placed under arrest. The matter is then taken over by the prosecutors of the Manhattan District Attorney's office.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
ADA Alexandra Borgia and Detective Joe Fontana, take on cases involving a grim sterilization campaign, post-partum psychosis and a death so disturbing to Lieutenant Van Buren that she flirts with perjury in the name of justice the legacy from esteemed producer Dick Wolf continues with this sixteenth season of television's longest-running crime series.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
In New York City, when a crime is committed, the victims are represented by two distinct yet intertwined forces. There's the police department, represented by the 27th precinct Homicide Detectives. It is their job to investigate the crime, collect evidence, and interview witnesses. Suspects are placed under arrest. The matter is then taken over by the prosecutors of the Manhattan District Attorney's office.
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