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Ruth Jefferson, a labour and delivery nurse with twenty years' experience, is barred from caring for a newborn because his parents are white supremacists, and when the baby goes into distress while she is alone with him, she is charged with his death.
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My Sister's Keeper
Thirteen-year-old Anna Fitzgerald was conceived as a genetic match for her sister Kate, who has leukemia, and has given blood and marrow all her life; when her parents expect her to give a kidney, she hires a lawyer and sues them for the right to decide.
Midwives
During an ice storm in rural Vermont in 1981, midwife Sibyl Danforth performs an emergency caesarean on a mother she believes has died in labour and is charged with manslaughter; her daughter Connie, fourteen at the time and now an obstetrician, tells the story of the trial.
Monster
Steve Harmon, a sixteen-year-old from Harlem on trial for his part in a deadly drugstore robbery, tells his story as a screenplay he writes in his head, broken up by entries from his prison journal.
Nineteen Minutes
In nineteen minutes, seventeen-year-old Peter Houghton, bullied since kindergarten, brings guns to his New Hampshire high school, and the town tries to understand how it happened, while the judge assigned to the case has a daughter who was there and says she cannot remember.
Mad Honey
Olivia McAfee left an abusive marriage to take over her father's beekeeping business in a small New Hampshire town, and her teenage son Asher falls for Lily Campanello, who is new in town. Months later Lily is dead and Asher is charged with her murder.
To Kill a Mockingbird
A lawyer in Depression-era Alabama defends a Black man falsely accused of rape, as seen through the eyes of his young daughter.
A Time to Kill
A small-town Mississippi lawyer takes the case of a black father who killed the two white men who raped his daughter, and the Klan starts showing up in the parking lot.
Miracle Creek
In a small Virginia town, a hyperbaric oxygen chamber run by a Korean immigrant family explodes during a session, killing two people, and a year later the trial of a mother accused of setting the fire draws every witness into question.
Home
A traumatised Black Korean War veteran travels across 1950s America to save his sister from a medical experiment.
Native Son
A young Black man in 1930s Chicago commits a terrible act and is consumed by the legal and racial machinery that was going to destroy him anyway.
A Map of the World
Alice Goodwin, a school nurse who lives with her husband and daughters on a dairy farm in rural Wisconsin, is minding her best friend's two little girls when one of them wanders down to the pond.
Culpability
When the family minivan, driving itself with seventeen-year-old Charlie behind the wheel, crashes during a trip, the Cassidy-Shaws have to decide who is to blame, while the mother, an expert on the ethics of artificial intelligence, keeps secrets of her own.