But as Terri spends time with Rennell and re creates the events that put him on death row beginning with the first minutes of the police investigation she starts to understand the forces that shaped Rennell and the reason he has never been able to defend himself adequately. In a trial, Rennell, along with his older brother, Payton, was found guilty of the heinous crime, and the Conviction has been upheld through one appeal after another. I didn t do that little girl is all Rennell Price has ever said in his own defense. This time, Terri has a client she believes may actually be innocent, which means that an unpunished killer may still be free.
But attorney Terri Paget, who has fought her own way out of hopelessness and abuse, has dedicated her life to fighting for people like Rennell Price. That’s how long Rennell Price has to live after spending fifteen years on death row for the horrifying sexual assault and murder of a girl whose body was found floating in San Francisco Bay. Now, in Conviction, Patterson tackles one of the most emotional and complex of all legal debates: When, if ever, does the state have the right to exact the ultimate punishment and is the death penalty a crime unto itself? Fifty nine days. He consistently writes novels that are intensely dramatic and deeply thought provoking. In his acclaimed career as a perennial bestselling author, Richard North Patterson has established himself as one of our most important voices in fiction and a keeper of the American conscience. Finally, the revelations in the courtroom overshadowed by what threatens to remain hidden: in the little girl’s tangled loyalties, in the defendant’s damning refusal to testify on his own behalf, and in the details of a childhood trauma that haunts his lover’s adult life… A trial, sensational from the very start: the attorney turned defendant’s motives for murder made clear in the courtroom and in the out for blood press his alibi so quickly dismantled that even his son begins to doubt him.
A grand jury indictment for murder handed down to his estranged wife’s new lover, a high profile defense attorney. An investigation that uncovers the viscous custody fight he waged with his estranged wife over their young daughter: his extorting threats, his accusations of sexual abuse of the child. In San Francisco, a dead man discovered amid evidence that might confirm suicide but strongly suggests murder. 99Read by Ken HowardA stunning new courtroom drama from the author of the nationwide bestsellers Final Judgment, Silent Witness, and Degree of Guilt. The same 3 hour quality performce for less2 cassettes / 3 hoursOnly $8.
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