The Esperanza Fire: Arson, Murder, and the Agony of Engine 57

by John N. Maclean

Book Overview

When a jury returns to a packed courtroom to announce its verdict in a capital murder case every noise, even a scraped chair or an opening door, resonates like a high-tension cable snap. Spectators stop rustling in their seats; prosecution and defense lawyers and the accused stiffen into attitudes of wariness; and the judge looks on owlishly. In that atmosphere of heightened expectation the jury entered a Riverside County Superior Court room in southern...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1619020718
• ISBN13: 9781619020719
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"