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Limitations

Author: Scott Turow
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: limitations
Number of Pages: 197
Published: 2006-11-14
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0312426453
ISBN-13: 9780312426453

A Picador Paperback Original From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Presumed Innocent comes a compelling new legal mystery featuring George Mason from Personal Injuries. Originally commissioned and published by The New York Times Magazine, this edition contains additional material. Life would seem to have gone well for George Mason. His days as a criminal defense lawyer are long behind him. At fifty-nine, he has sat as a judge on the Court of Appeals in Kindle County for nearly a decade. Yet, when a disturbing rape case is brought before him, the judge begins to question the very

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Limitations

Author: Scott Turow
Publisher: Pan Publishing
Keywords: limitations
Number of Pages: 207
Published: 2007-10
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0330451154
ISBN-13: 9780330451154

Life would seem to have gone well for George Mason. His days as a criminal defence lawyer are long behind him. At fifty-nine, he has sat as a judge on the Court of Appeals in Kindle County for nearly a decade. Yet, when a disturbing rape case is brought before him, the judge begins to question the very nature of the law and his role within it. What is troubling George Mason so deeply? Is it his wife’s recent diagnosis? Or the strange and threatening emails he has started to receive? And what is it about this horrific case of sexual assault, now on trial in his courtroom, that has led him

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Statue of Limitations

Author: Tamar Myers
Publisher: Avon
Keywords: limitations, statue
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2004-06-01
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0060535148
ISBN-13: 9780060535148

Abigail Timberlake Washburn, petite but feisty proprietor of Charleston’s Den of Antiquity antiques shop, stopped speaking to best friend and temporary decorating partner Wynnell Crawford a month ago -- after questioning her choice of a cheap, three-foot-high replica of Michaelangelo’s David to adorn the garden of a local bed-and-breakfast. But now Wynnell has broken the silence with one phone call ... from prison! It seems the b&b owner has been fatally beaned -- allegedly by the same tacky statue -- and Wynnell’s been fingered by the cops for the bashing. But Abby suspe

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Statute of Limitations

Author: Steven F. Havill
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Keywords: limitations, statute
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2006-03-21
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0312336306
ISBN-13: 9780312336301

A call to her doctor husband is Estelle Reyes-Guzman’s unwelcome reminder that it may be Christmas Eve, but it’s still her job as undersheriff to deal with things not as pleasant as welcoming friends and relatives and listening to her two small boys put their storybook tales to music. Shortly after her husband hurries off to see the patient, Estelle gets a call of her own from the dispatcher at headquarters. An anonymous person has called the emergency line to report seeing two men fleeing a motel where another is lying dead on the ground. It is the patient who called, and he is no

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Statutory Limitations in International Criminal Law

Author: Ruth A. Kok
Publisher: Asser Press
Keywords: law, criminal, international, limitations, statutory
Number of Pages: 462
Published: 2007-12-17
List price: $123.99
ISBN-10: 9067042374
ISBN-13: 9789067042376

Does the passage of time prevent the prosecution of international crimes committed in the past? Statutory Limitations in International Criminal Law examines whether and to what extent a rule of customary international law or general principle of law exists which prohibits the application of statutory limitations to international crimes. The focus is on international crimes, such as genocide, war crimes and torture, committed during World War II, under the former communist regimes in Eastern Europe and under military junta regimes in Latin America. Comprehensive analysis is included of the legi