4 Legal Thrillers That Take on Wrongful Convictions in Pursuit of Justice
By Emily Hoang
The truth will set you free. For these four fictional accounts of wrongful convictions, the truth will not only mean freedom but may determine life or death. In “Confessions of an Innocent Man”, Rafael is sentenced to death row and must find the real culprits for taking away everything he had. In the other accounts, characters will need to race against time if they want to save their loved ones and finally get the peaceful life they envisioned for themselves.
Elijah Matthews has been locked up on a psychiatric hospital for the past four years, convicted for brutally murdering a pastor of a megachurch. When Boady Sanden gets Elijah’s case, he thinks there’s nothing he can do. But as Boady investigates deeper into Elijah’s file, he’s alarmed to find connections to the death of his colleague and friend, Ben Pruitt. Fourteen-year-old Emma, Ben’s daughter, has been living with Boady and his wife since then, but decides to leave Boady’s home. Desperate to bring her back and free an innocent man, Boady will have to fight to save the family he deeply loves.
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Rusty, a retired judge, is ready for rest and peace, with his soon-to-be wife Bea in their home on an idyllic lake in the rural Midwest. But this fantasy quickly evaporates when Aaron, Bea’s young adult son, disappears. He’s living under their supervision while on probation for drug possession and will be sent back to jail if he doesn’t return. He eventually comes back with a vague story about camping with this troubled girlfriend, Mae. Days later, when Mae doesn’t return, Aaron is arrested and is suspected of her murder. Rusty is forced to return to court one last time and reckon whether the system can ever provide true justice for those already presumed guilty.
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In this sixth installment of A Lincoln Lawyer series, Mickey Haller’s happiness doesn’t last too long. On the night he celebrates a big win, the defense attorney finds the body of a former client in the trunk of his Lincoln. He’s charged with murder and a $5 million bail. He elects to represent himself and has to mount his defense from his jail cell in the Twin Towers Correctional Center in downtown Los Angeles.
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Rafael Zhettah is a bunch of things: owner and head chef of a restaurant in Houston, pilot, and bachelor. All this changes when he meets billionaire philanthropist, Tieresse. His soul mate gets ripped away too quickly when she’s found murdered in their home. He get convicted of the crime and sentenced to death. When he recaptures freedom, he’ll stop at nothing to deliver justice to those who took everything away from him.
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