Invasion of privacy

Informationen zum Autor Perri O'Shaughnessy Klappentext Twelve years ago, a young girl disappeared. Now a filmmaker has made a movie about it. The girl's parents call it invasion of privacy. A woman lawyer calls it murder. The bloodstains on the courtroom floor belong to attorney Nina Reilly. Months earlier she'd been shot during a heated murder trial. She should have died that day. Instead, Nina has returned to the same Lake Tahoe court. Her only concession to her lingering fear is to give up criminal law. She figures an invasion of privacy lawsuit is a nice, safe civil action that will help her support her young son and pay the bills for her one-woman law office. She figures wrong. Nina's client is Terry London, a filmmaker whose documentary about a missing girl is raising disturbing questions. The girl's distraught parents believe the film invades their privacy. But Terry's brutal murder changes everything. Breaking her promise to herself, Nina decides to defend Terry's accused murderer, a man she'd known years before and hoped never to see again. Suddenly the secrets of Nina's past are beginning to surface in a murder case that gets more dangerous every day. The evidence against her client is shocking and ironclad--a video of Terry's dying words. The only chance Nina has to save the man may be illegal. And if it fails, Nina may lose the case, her practice...and even her life.Silence in the court.  The only smiles came from the middle of the room where the Sweets sat, holding hands.  Milne wiped his glasses on his robe, rubbing his eyes before putting them back on.  Nina knew he had a criminal trial resuming at eleven-thirty.  He had no time for wordplay.  She felt the weight of the crushing time pressure caused by too many cases and too few judges, which made attorneys forget their best points and judges miss the ones they remembered to say. "Ms. Reilly?  Would you care to respond?" Milne was saying.  She picked up her notes, gulping the dry air, as the courtroom waited for the first words to issue forth from her empty mind.  Up you go.... "Just a few brief points, Your Honor.  Let me first introduce my client, Theresa London."  The judge gravely inclined his head.  Terry also nodded, as Nina had coached her to do, and sat back down gracefully. "Opposing counsel's bombast aside, Your Honor, Terry London has been working on this film for over a year.  She has put countless hours and a lot of her own money into it.  It's a work of art, based on truth.  The world will be able to judge its merit.  The plaintiffs, Tamara Sweet's parents and friends, encouraged Ms. London to make this film because they thought it might help them to locate her.  And now they want to destroy it.  Why?" Nina caught Milne's eye, held it, and made him listen. "Our expert, Monty Glasser, producer of the television series Real-Life Riddles, says this film has considerable artistic merit.  As a documentary, it takes a point of view.  The plaintiffs are offended by the filmmaker's point of view, because the film portrays them without masks, as they are, no more and no less. "That's what this lawsuit is all about. "But the film doesn't belong to the plaintiffs.  They did not finance it; they did not labor over it; it is not their artistic effort. "The United State Supreme Court doesn't look kindly on muzzling artistic expression in this country.  Plaintiffs don't know what the reaction of the public to this film is going to be, Your Honor, so there has been no harm to them.  There may be no harm.  To prevent a book or film from even being made public is prior restraint.  It's the kind of First Amendment censorship our courts are least likely to order." Milne looked at the clock.  Even the United States Constitution didn't sing for him today.  Nina decided to finish quickly, with her best ammo. "And, of course, the plaintiffs can't...

Product details

• Authors: O&apos, Perri O'Shaughnessy, Perri Shaughnessy
• Publisher: Dell Publishing Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.06.1997
• EAN: 9780440220695
• ISBN: 978-0-440-22069-5
• No. of pages: 544
• Dimensions: 108 mm x 175 mm x 28 mm
• Series: Nina Reilly; Nina Reilly
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense