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Contempt

By: Michael Cordell
Narrated by: Emmanuel Alejandro
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A Top 20 Amazon Kindle Legal Thriller.

Playing by the rules landed him on death row. Now he'll have to break all the rules to survive.

After spending five years in jail for a murder he didn't commit, lawyer Thane Banning agrees to take on a case defending a former inmate against the same DA who put Thane behind bars.

Thane is besieged by death threats from the alleged victim's father and a tidal wave of public outrage following his release, not to mention the corrupt DA who has a grudge to settle. But he doesn't have much time to think about his personal problems because the case is turning into a nasty fight.

Luckily, prison taught Thane a thing or two about survival in a world full of criminals. The last time he played by the rules in court, he landed on death row. This time he'll have to break more than a few rules to come out of this battle unscathed.

With help from an ex-inmate and an ambitious law student, Thane will do everything in his power to make sure another innocent man isn't locked up. But will they be able to uncover the truth in time and convince the jury before the gavel drops for the last time?

Fans of An Innocent Client by Scott Pratt, The Neon Lawyer by Victor Methos, Time of Justice by Robin James, and Hard Evidence by John Lescroart will love this audiobook.

©2020 Michael Cordell (P)2023 Michael Cordell
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It’s a good but unrealistic story

Trial lawyers rarely make excellence transactional lawyers. And, transactional lawyers are completely adrift in the courtroom. So when a lawyer convicted of murder and sentenced to death is freed by a successful appeal and takes on the district attorney in L.A. who sent him to be warehoused until would face the needle, it wasn’t surprising that he would take on the district attorney when one of his prison buddies is accused of murder. So far so good, right?But this guy wasn’t any kind of trial lawyer, he did commerce real estate. His practice was completely separated from the skill set needed to succeed before a jury. And at that point it just became a good yarn, divorced from reality. In short, you can enjoy it. It is nicely plotted and full of twists and turns.

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Narration ruined it

The narrator’s voices for the different characters ruined it for me, and I couldn’t finish. Everyone except Thane sounded ridiculous. Authors - please select narrators who can do voices that sound natural and normal. I think the story was average and I likely would have finished it if the audio wasn’t so awful.

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