The Court (Charley Sloan Courtroom Thrillers)
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ISBN: 0312970277 / Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks, December 1999
A Supreme Court justice who holds the deciding vote in several pivotal cases is near death in a hospital, and the president has asked high-powered Washington attorney Jerry Green to do something about the situation
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Nine Supreme Court judges will soon decide four history-making cases. Eight of them will split along party lines four to four. The ninth judge, holding the swing vote, will tip the scales of justice. He's a good man, a fine man, and, unknown to nearly everyone, a dying man-barely kept alive by machines in a very private hospital.High-powered Washington attorney Jerry Green is one of the privileged few who discovers American justice rides on the rise and fall of a respirator. Now he's been called by the President himself to do something about it. It's a hunt for truth that will arouse his darkest suspicions...force him to make a shocking choice...and save the legitimacy of American justice. Or shatter it forever...
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