Michael Connelly is a prolific and highly respected author. About 80 million copies of his three-dozen crime\/mystery novels have sold worldwide. Twenty-two of them are in his Hieronymus \u201cHarry\u201d Bosch series, although Harry occasionally appears in some of his other titles. And that is the case in the book that I\u2019ve just finished, \u201cThe Law of Innocence,\u201d which is the latest offering in the Lincoln Lawyer series.<\/p>\n
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Connelly takes us right into the essence of the plot when defense attorney Mickey Haller gets pulled over by Officer Milton for failing to have a license plate on his Lincoln. But that\u2019s not the only problem, there\u2019s blood leaking from the trunk and a body with bullet holes inside it.<\/p>\n
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Charged with murder and hit with an offer of $5 million bail, he has to mount his defense from a cell in L.A.\u2019s Twin Tower Correctional Facility. Borrowing a bait-and-switch technique from John Grisham\u2019s \u201cThe Rainmaker,\u201d Haller traps the prosecution in a violation of court procedure, gets his bail reduced, and \u2014 with financial help from his half-brother Harry Bosch and a former client \u2014 gets out of jail to prepare for court.<\/p>\n
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But Haller wants more than a court decision. In court, there\u2019s no such thing as \u201cinnocent.\u201d There\u2019s just guilty or not guilty; hence the title that Connelly chose for this tale. However, his jailhouse trick has angered prosecutor Death Row Dana, and she\u2019s more determined than ever to put Harry away for life.<\/p>\n
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Haller\u2019s team needs to find out what scam Sam Scales, the victim, was working at the time when he was killed, but little is known about his recent activities. When it is discovered that he spent time in the High Desert Prison near Las Vegas, Haller goes to talk with Neiderland, the man who was his roommate.<\/p>\n
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\u201cAre you trying to find out who killed him?\u201d Neiderland asked. \u201cOr are you just worried about proving you didn\u2019t?\u201d<\/p>\n
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Haller answers, \u201cThe only way to prove I didn\u2019t do it is to prove who did\u2026. That\u2019s the law of innocence.\u201d<\/p>\n
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One of the problems facing Haller is the fact that Death Row Dana Berg, a.k.a. Iceberg, is a true believer in his guilt, and she\u2019s willing to bend the law a bit to prove it. But she\u2019s up against Judge Violet Warfield, a former defense attorney, who seems to favor Haller, but must maintain an atmosphere of fairness.<\/p>\n
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Meanwhile, Haller, who is handling his own defense (with a lot of help from his first ex-spouse, Maggie \u201cMcFierce,\u201d who otherwise works for the District Attorney), is haunted by the maxim, \u201cA lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client.\u201d And the adage becomes almost prophetic as Haller\u2019s defense begins to fall apart: the \u201cstraw man\u201d is killed, a key point of argument is not allowed, and the FBI becomes involved with a case that is \u201cbigger\u201d than the conviction of an innocent man.<\/p>\n
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Disfruta.<\/p>\n
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\u2022 \u2022 \u2022<\/p>\n
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Puede contactar a Jim Glynn en j_glynn@att.net.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Michael Connelly is a prolific and highly respected author. About 80 million copies of his three-dozen crime\/mystery novels have sold worldwide. Twenty-two of them are in his Hieronymus \u201cHarry\u201d Bosch series, although Harry occasionally appears in some of his other titles. And that is the case in the book that I\u2019ve just finished, \u201cThe Law […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,18,21],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-5528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-lifestyle","category-opinion","tag-culture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}