Michael Parrish
For the People: Inside the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office 1850-2000
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150 years of Los Angeles crime -- direct from the files of the Los AngelesDistrict Attorney. With captivating visual and narrative portraits of headline-grabbingcriminal cases, For the People charts the first 150 years of the Los Angeles County District Attorneys Office, from its beginnings as a one-man operation to its modern-day emergence as the worlds largest local prosecutorial agency. This authorized history offers unique insightinto the lawyers on both sides of some of the most significant and well-known courtroom dramas ever, and proves that truth is often dramatically stranger than fiction. Author Michael Parrish chronicles a rich cro…
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150 years of Los Angeles crime -- direct from the files of the Los AngelesDistrict Attorney. With captivating visual and narrative portraits of headline-grabbingcriminal cases, For the People charts the first 150 years of the Los Angeles County District Attorneys Office, from its beginnings as a one-man operation to its modern-day emergence as the worlds largest local prosecutorial agency. This authorized history offers unique insightinto the lawyers on both sides of some of the most significant and well-known courtroom dramas ever, and proves that truth is often dramatically stranger than fiction. Author Michael Parrish chronicles a rich cross-section of true crime storiesshowing how infamous killers such as Charles Manson and Night Stalker Richard Ramirez were brought to justice; how Julian Pete swindled thousands of ordinary investors in the 1920s oil boom; how Charles Keating defrauded thousands of Americans; how stripper Lili St. Cyr was prosecuted, unsuccessfully, for taking a bubble bath before a live audience at Ciros; and how JosephP. Kennedy helped frame one of the biggest moguls of Hollywood's Golden Age and got away with it.
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Weitere Autoren: Starr, Kevin (Solist) / Garcetti, Gil (Solist)
- ISBN: 978-1-883318-15-4
- EAN: 9781883318154
- Produktnummer: 9187139
- Verlag: Angel City Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
- Masse: H31.5 cm x B25.9 cm x D2.3 cm 1'420 g
- Gewicht: 1420
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