Rough Justice

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Criminal lawyer Marta Richter is hours away from winning an acquittal for her client, millionaire businessman Elliot Steere, on trial for the murder of a homeless man who had tried to carjack him. But as the jury begins deliberations, Marta discovers the chilling truth about her client's innocence. Taking justice into her own hands, she furiously sets out to prove the truth, with the help of two young associates. In an excruciating game of beat-the-clock with both the jury and the worst blizzard to hit Philadelphia in decades, Marta will learn that the search for justice isn't only rough—it can also be deadly.

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Wow.......2007-04-09

How on earth did this rubbish get published? To quote another reviewer..
"I don't believe I'm still reading this thing."

Warning: Spoiler !

We are immediately led to believe that a criminal defense lawyer with 15 years experience is shocked that her client is guilty. She feels used and vows revenge even though the jury is due back before lunchtime the next morning. I am sure had the lawyer been male, he would have laughed with the client, but we are led to believe that this female attorney is outraged that her client lied to her!!

Even the case itself is stupid. An apparent clear case of self defense. The DA has nothing and yet not only does the trial last 2 months, but the defendant has been remanded in jail for a year without bail !!

The judge on the case is up for the state supreme court even though he is only a district court judge.

What follows is a disastrous, unbelievable race to find evidence that will somehow enable the client to be convicted. Most of the 'evidence' that is found would never be admissible anyway.

Our `hero' tampers with the jury, drives to her clients beach house, breaks in, finds papers for a boat, breaks into a boat yard, breaks into storage, finds a boat, finds a map with a pin hole, spends hours digging in the freezing cold, finds a box, finds a computer printout. Why her client has kept this printout is beyond me since it became worthless a few hours after they used it.

Everyone treaks across the city in knee high snow. Spend hours outside in driving blizzard conditions. Then, everythings falls into place, everything becomes clear and it is a race to the court house. The end comes quickly. Then the really stupid part, the police show up with WARRENTS!! I mean, how? why? There would be no warrant without an investigation and evidence. The only person who spoke to the police in the whole book was the jurist who knew next to nothing.

Our hero would be charged with countless offences and would probably never practice law again.

Stressing me out just writing this review.. stupid book.

Still wondering.......2007-04-06

I really love Lisa Scottoline's other books and this one did have her fast pace, but it was a bit confusing. I have to agree w/ other comments about the entire plot not being plausible. The characters all kept information regarding their client a secret from eachother. They were being attacked, shot, hunted down and never thought once about calling the police. Also, there were soooo many characters introduced- at length and then not another word about them. I skipped some parts ( like an entire chapter on the heroine trying to dig up and open a lock box).
Not my favorite of Lisa's , but I plan to keep reading her work.

Misandry Personified.......2007-01-04

Rough Justice is little more than an exercise in exaggerated formulaic writing. All of Ms. Scottoline's characters are two dimensional caricatures. The heros are all female. The villains are all male. The situations overreach and are scarcely believable. The interactions between male and female characters are so misandrous that even male children are portrayed as mean spirited, dishonest and corrupt. The primary antagonists are shown to be either murderers, brutes, and malicious malefactors of one kind or another, or utterly emasculated wimps with nothing better to do than fetch baby formula and cower before the tirades of other overbearing males. I found this book to be shallow, uninteresting and fundamentally bereft of any redeeming value. I would not recommend reading it to anyone, except perhaps those who share Ms. Scottoline's investment in misandry.

Fast-pace legal thriller.......2006-10-13

Marta Richter is a criminal lawyer who is about to win an acquittal for her client, Elliot Steere, a powerful real estate mogul. In a moment of hubris, Steer admits to her that he is indeed guilty of killing a man he claimed had hijacked him. Furious at her client, Marta is determined to reveal the truth about him and have him convicted. What follows is a fast-paced plot, full of twists and turns. The action switches from Marta to her associates Mary and Judy, to the presiding judge, to the assistant DA, to the jury foreman. Each one has a vested interest in the case and each one will do whatever it takes to win. Much of what happens falls into the category of "highly unlikely", but nevertheless it's great fun and an interesting read. Author Scottoline is amazingly creative with her plots and characters and always provides an entertaining
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F word abounds.......2004-09-10

Apparently the author hoped you wouldn't notice the plot problems if she through the F word in every other sentence. Reading this book is like spending the afternoon with outspoken sailors.

Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874-1947

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Close Examination
provocative thesis

Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874-1947
Michael J. Pfeifer
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ASIN: 025207405X

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In this first national, cross-regional study of lynching and criminal justice, Michael J. Pfeifer investigates the pervasive and persistent commitment to "rough justice" that characterized rural and working class areas of most of the United States in the late nineteenth century.

Defining rough justice as the harsh, informal, and often communal punishment of perceived criminal behavior, Pfeifer examines the influence of race, gender, and class on understandings of criminal justice and shows how they varied across regions. He argues that lynching only ended when "rough justice" enthusiasts compromised with middle-class advocates of due process by revamping the death penalty into an efficient, technocratic, and highly racialized mechanism of retributive justice.

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Close Examination.......2007-02-27

A close examination of race, gender and class in the criminal justice system."

provocative thesis.......2005-11-21

Pfeifer's provocative thesis is that lynching was an expression of ordinary Americans' distrust of formalized law, and desire for quick and retributive justice. The problem is that although this may be an accurate description in some cases, it certainly isn't accurate in other cases. Ever since Ida Wells' research, it's been clear that many lynchings were a method of social control against uppity blacks, e.g., black shopkeepers who competed with whites. Pfeifer tries to use broad language to include those cases, but it just won't wash.

People Who Have Stolen from Me: Rough Justice in the New South Africa

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People Who Have Stolen from Me: Rough Justice in the New South Africa
David Cohen
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda

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A decade after the fall of apartheid, South Africa is attempting to rebuild itself as a safe, just and democratic society. But an exponential rise in property theft threatens to derail that future. In People Who Have Stolen From Me, journalist David Cohen looks at his native country through the microcosm of Jules Street, at once the longest straight street in Johannesburg and a rambunctious thoroughfare on which crooked men thrive. On Jules Street, Cohen tracks the tragicomic fortunes of two charismatic businessmen and their colorful coterie of employees, who include former carjackers. The furniture store owned by Harry Sher and Jack Rubin is caught in the middle of an undeclared war: they are raided, robbed and defrauded by gangs of criminals, customers, even some of their own trusted employees. The descendants of Jewish immigrants who came from Eastern Europe at the beginning of the 20th century, Harry and Jack welcome the new democracy but must deploy all their humor, cunning, and salesmen's instincts to counter the criminals who threaten their business and sometimes their lives.Spending time with the perpetrators as well as the victims, both white and black, Cohen reveals as never before the hidden psychology of the new South Africa. Some say they merely steal material goods, while the system of apartheid has robbed them of their future. If you steal something from someone who has stolen from you, they ask, is that crime? Or is that justice? People Who Have Stolen From Me is the dramatic but true story of life at the sharp end in a country at the crossroads. It is also a hilarious and universal tale about conscience, betrayal and trust.

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Excellent work.......2005-08-03

This is an incredible book that beats the pants off of so much of what is considered good writing. Compelling, funny, you can't put it down. There is something here for everyone.

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Rough Justice
Colin Falconer
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Funny, poignant, and brilliant memoire of former prosecutor
ROUGH JUSTICE

Rough Justice
David Heilbroner
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ASIN: 0440210305
Release Date: 1991-08-03

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Funny, poignant, and brilliant memoire of former prosecutor.......2002-03-12

It's a pity if this book is not widely read. It is the most well-written and vivid acount of how it is like to be an Assistant District Attorney among anything similar I have read so far. And it describes very persuasively how a young prosecutor with a high ideal will eventually be burned out.
Highly recommended.

ROUGH JUSTICE.......2000-04-15

Intimate look at life from a young lawyer's perspective -the witnesses, victims and defendants who each have their own version of the truth to share. If you want to go beyond the sensational novels that portray the "reality" of a lawyer's life and get the real inside story, this is a must-read book, showing how hard it can be to find true justice in the legal system of today.

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Rule #1: This ain't Gotham
Nightwing + Chuck Dixon = Funny Book Bliss
The opening's through and series' really starting to pick up
The continuing saga of Dick Grayson
More Guest Stars + Cool New Car = Great Followup!

Nightwing Vol. 2: Rough Justice
Chuck Dixon
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Rule #1: This ain't Gotham.......2007-05-17

"In Gotham the corruption is from the street up. Here it's from the Mayor's office down."

That phrase sums up Dick Grayson's stint in Bludhaven perfectly. He's made a few friends since he arrived but he still has no allies in the crime fighting aspect of his life. The local law enforcement is still corrupt and most of the town is still under the finger of various mob bosses, most prominent being BlockBuster.

'Rough Justice' collects issues 9-18 of the regular Nightwing series and is broken down into three separate (yet, interconnected) stories.

The collection kicks off with a little Scarecrow induced delirium. Dick's married, has two kids, lives in the suburbs, and works in a cubical. If this seems a little odd, just wait...His boss is non-other then the Joker, Poison Ivy is shacking up with The Penguin, Bruce Wyane is killing off Dick's kids, and Jason Todd is a zombie paper boy on Dick's route. It takes Grayson a little doing but he's finally able to shake off the Scarecrow's influence and gives him the ol'one two. It is revealed that Soams was behind Scarecrow's sudden appearance in Bludhaven and Grayson decides to bump him up on his to do list, it's time to take him down. It becomes quiet apparent that he's not the only one after Soams either, the cops (having no other choice) are hunting him down and BlockBuster wants him dead because of what information he could hand over to the badges. In this chapter we really get to see why they call him "Deadly" Soams because he opens up a big can of whoop ass. In the end he has a really 'twisted' encounter with BlockBuster.

In the next story Batman comes to town (to check up on Grayson) and there is a lot of funny banter between the two former partners (Bats really presses 'wing about needing a lair). The dream team pair up to take on the 'haven underworld working their way through the under bosses to get some dirt on BlockBuster. Batman learns how things are done in Bludhaven and Nightwing picks up a few new tricks from his old mentor (and they both enjoy a romp with carnivorous pigs). It all boils down to Nightwing vs. BlockBuster 2 but this time Grayson's come prepared.

In the third and last story of this collection Man-Bat comes to town. Grayson tries to catch him so they can return him to his human form and take him back to his wife (whom has stuck by his side over all these years) but just when he has MB within his grasps, Deathstroke shows up. He delivers Man-Bat to a Cryptozoologist who plans to cash in on the Man-Bat myth and film his own series of straight to video documentaries on the 'living vampire' of course it's up to Grayson to foil this plan as well.

Throughout the entire collection two subplots exist. The first being Soams operation and the other being Tad Ryerstand the crazy vigilante.

After a turn of events (which you will have to read about for yourself) Soams lands himself in an experimental hospital. He ends up the oddity that he is later on in the series.

Tad Ryerstand (the guy who beat down the bum in the first collection 'Knight in Bludhaven') tries to become a vigilante. The `havens own personal guardian angel...but he's a little on the psychotic side. In his mind everyone is a criminal. He attacks innocents just as often as he does legit criminals. After reading up on the Tarantula (former vigilante) he decides that he needs to give himself a name and a proper costume.

This collection isn't as good as the first ('Knight in Bludhaven') but it's still worth picking up. It was slow at the beginning (Scarecrow's delirium panels are always a slow read for me) but it picks up after that and proves to be quiet the entertaining read. This is a must for anyone who wants to make heads or tails of how Soams came to be in his current 'condition' and for anyone interested in keeping with continuity. However, if you're new to the series this is a terrible place to start. It picks up exactly where 'Knight in Bludhaven' left off so without that collection you will be rather lost.

Nightwing + Chuck Dixon = Funny Book Bliss.......2006-01-26

This trade collects issues #9-18 of the classic run by Dixon and McDaniel. I loved A Knight in Bludhaven, but Rough Justice is even better.

Nightwing teams up with Batman for a few issues, and Blockbuster continues to harass Bludhaven. There is also a wonderfully creepy turn of events with Detective Soames, and I can't wait to see how it plays out in future issues.

The opening's through and series' really starting to pick up.......2004-11-05

This is the second TPB for the Nightwing comic series. The first one is Nightwing: Knight in Bludhaven which I've reviewed before. First off, this book is better than the first in every way and from what I've heard, this series just keeps getting better with age. Nightwing is still in Bludhaven, trying to solve the mystery of who killed the 21 men that floated up to Gotham. At the end of Knight in Bludhaven, we found out that it was secretly Blockbuster who was pulling the strings. But Dick can't bust him because of lack of evidence.

Anyway, this book is much better than Knight in Bludhaven. The stories are cooler, the action is better, you can actually tell what's going on in every one of the panels, and the characters are hundreds of times better. In Knight in Bludhaven, Dick fought a lot of cheap thugs and not enough super villains. In this one, it's all Batman style super villain beat downs. We see characters likes Scarecrow, Batman, Oracle, an improved Lady Vic, Two Face (Though we never really see him), and Man-Bat. There's quite a few story arcs packed into the book, like Scarecrow coming to town as a free lance super villain (resulting in a one really bad ass issue in which the whole entire comic is Dick's fear gas induced nightmare), Batman coming to town to check on Dick, and the introduction of the Night-Mobile. All of these tie somehow into the over all story of Nightwing trying to bring down Blockbuster.

We also get to see something we've never really seen in the Nightwing comic: comedy. With the introduction of Blockbuster's mom, we get to see some humorous moments like her trying to make her "darling son" a nice cup of hot chocolate. We also get to see a "Mary-Jane and Peter Parker" type story-line of Nightwing's super Clancy trying to get a date with Dick, but Dick's alter ego leaves him with not enough time. Of course on the TPB side, we have a nice cover gallery and a character bio section at the beginning.

I can't really find any flaws with this at all. The only problem I can really find (and trust me I'm searching) is that I don't like the way that Batman's drawn at all, but that's more of a personal preference than a flaw. But anyway, buy it now. I can't wait for Love and Bullets or whatever the next Nightwing trade is.

The continuing saga of Dick Grayson.......2001-06-03

NIGHTWING: ROUGH JUSTICE kicks off the second collection of DC Comics' NIGHTWING series with a bang, a wild, hallucinatory ride through Nightwing's mind as the Scarecrow tries to use his fear toxins to unhinge the super hero. It continues with the same, high-energy, Hong Kong action flick style that makes this comic so great.

But that's not all! What really makes the Nightwing series tick, and ROUGH JUSTICE is as good at it as any of the Nightwing collections, is the characterization. The relationship Nightwing has with Batman, Barbara Gordon and the others in his life is the glue that keeps the series together.

There are so many wonderful story elements in this volume that the best recommendation I can give you is to buy it and find out for yourself! If you love super hero comics and wild, over-the-top action, illustrated by the best in the comics biz, you'll love NIGHTWING: ROUGH JUSTICE. It's a great sequel to the first book in the series, NIGHTWING: A KNIGHT IN BLUDHAVEN, and reads like a complete collection of short stories. Don't miss it!

More Guest Stars + Cool New Car = Great Followup!.......2000-05-30

After the extended storyline in "A Knight in Bludhaven", "Rough Justice" gives us more guest stars and expands the cast of characters as well as giving the reader a breather with some self-contained stories. Chuck Dixon's greatest strength is to tell one-two issue stories, so that new readers can jump in, as well as use these stories to expand on subplots and the ongoing trials and tribulations of Nightwing. I loved the additions to the supporting cast and the new car is pretty fun to watch in action. A worthy sequel to the "Knight of Bludhaven" but enjoyable for a new reader as well.

5 Titles By Lisa Scottoline in Rosato and Associates Series : Moment of Truth - Rough Justice - Courting Trouble - Dead Ringer - Killer Smile

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5 Titles By Lisa Scottoline in Rosato and Associates Series : Moment of Truth - Rough Justice - Courting Trouble - Dead Ringer - Killer Smile
Lisa Scottoline
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5 massmarket paperback Titles By Lisa Scottoline in Rosato and Associates Series : Moment of Truth - Rough Justice - Courting Trouble - Dead Ringer - Killer Smile

3 Titles by Lisa Scottoline (DIRTY BLONDE - ROUGH JUSTICE - COURTING TROUBLE)

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3 Titles by Lisa Scottoline (DIRTY BLONDE - ROUGH JUSTICE - COURTING TROUBLE)
Lisa Scottoline
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The Jihad Next Door: The Lackawanna Six and Rough Justice in an Age of Terror

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Confused Theme
A Thought-Provoking Page Turner...

The Jihad Next Door: The Lackawanna Six and Rough Justice in an Age of Terror
Dina Temple-Raston
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Dina Temple-Raston, superb chronicler of the real life of America, examines Lackawanna, New York, home of the first al-Qaeda terrorist cell in America. Or was it?

The "Lackawanna Six" were young men, born of Yemeni families long-settled in upstate New York, who journeyed to Pakistan where they spent time in an al-Qaeda training camp long before the specter of 9/11, before the existence of the Homeland Security Act, before most people had heard of Osama Bin Laden.

This is a story of pre-emptive imprisonment for an act of terrorism never committed, a terrorist cell that may not even have been a cell, and a mysterious contact with an al-Qaeda operative who was supposedly killed but whose remains were never found.

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Confused Theme.......2007-09-30

My overall evaluation of this book is stated in the title of this review. The author doesn't develop one theme throughout this book, but jumps around between several different themes. Worse, some of these themes have merit and some don't. Some examples:

Theme 1: The Yemenite community in Lackawanna was typical of an ethnic/immigrant community anywhere in America in the past 100 years until this incident and its fallout. - One wishes this were true, but apparently it isn't, and Temple-Raston herself can't help but note things like this community's general celebration of the attack on the U.S. Cole (p.30), their insularity, the susceptibility of their youth to religious radicals, and their celebration of the escape of one of the "6" [really 9] from Yemenite authorities. Comparing this with the "illegal" Mexican-American community where I live, I don't see any similarity at all. My Mexican-American neighbors are rabidly pro-American [curiously, even when being chased by Homeland Security] and would like nothing better than for the U.S. model to be emulated everywhere.

Theme 2: The 6 [or 9] were just young alienated youth who really weren't at all interested in terrorism, but just wanted "to belong" and reaffirm their ethnic identity. They were misled into going to the Al Queda camps under the guise that they would be training to fight Russians and Serbs, not Americans. It was "an adventure" for the 9, not a serious taking up of arms. - The author adduces some evidence for this theme, but then, again, notes facts like the Lackawanna youth who ended up staying in the Middle East clearly declared to his fellows that he wanted to be a martyr and die for the cause. [One wonders why things were so clear to this young man but purportedly weren't at all clear to the other 8.] By the time that most of these youth had declared that the life of a Jihad warrior wasn't for them, it had been made clear to all 9 [if it wasn't crystal clear before - and it should have been crystal clear before] that the enemy was the U.S. and Israel, not the Russians and the Serbs. But was that their motivation for leaving the camp, or was their motivation that they didn't REALLY want to dedicate their lives and future to a cause, even the cause of "defending" fellow Muslims? The author doesn't seem to really know.

Theme 3: America is turning into a police state and giving up basic civil liberties gained from hundreds of years of struggle against tyranny. - This is the theme the author should have been emphasizing to start with and returning to throughout the book, yet she doesn't really get around to it until Chapter 14. The simple fact of the matter is that, although the 6 [or 9] may not have been, and may not be, very good Americans, they would not have been criminals under our laws of 50 years ago. They didn't actually DO anything to harm other Americans or their property. They would have had the same standing under previous American law as those people who were members of the German American Bund [or Henry Ford] before WWII [disgusting people, but not people we want littering our jails for their stupid views] But somehow the author seems "fuzzy" about this very basic point until nearly the end of her book.

So my evaluation is simple: Buy this book if you want somewhat disjointed sketches of the lives and some of the surroundings of the 6, with little more. Don't buy it if you are looking for a case study of this incident to accompany the many fine more theoretical studies of the loss of our civil liberties. You might borrow it from a friend and read Chapter 14, but if you are a civil libertarian there is not a lot more in the book to interest you.

A Thought-Provoking Page Turner..........2007-09-16

Dina Temple-Raston is a superb writer. Her books read like novels, tackling some of the most critical issues of our time: racism ("A Death in Texas"), genocide ("Justice on the Grass"), and now with "The Jihad Next Door", the question of whether homeland civil rights and justice can survive in an age of terrorism. With her unique and compelling writing style, Temple-Raston allows a reader to come to his or her own conclusions about the issues she tackles, and perhaps this is her greatest strength: she trusts in the intelligence of her readers. "The Jihad Next Door" is a page turner - and the best book I've read to date on the roots of fundamentalist Islam in America and the dangers our justice system has faced since 9//11.
If you only have time to read a handful of books this year, make this one of them...

The Jihad Next Door: The Lackawanna Six and Rough Justice in an Age of Terror, Library Edition

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The Jihad Next Door: The Lackawanna Six and Rough Justice in an Age of Terror, Library Edition
Dina Temple-Raston
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