The Hanging Judge by Michael Ponsor

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/204536 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hanging Judge Series: #1 of Judge Norcross Author: Michael Ponsor Narrator: Rich Orlow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 53 minutes Release date: December 3, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.16 of Total 19 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 6 Genres: Legal & Political Publisher's Summary: When a drive-by shooting in Holyoke, Massachusetts, claims the lives of a Puerto Rican drug dealer and a nurse at a neighborhood clinic, the police arrest a black drug dealer. With no death penalty in Massachusetts, the US attorney shifts the double homicide out of state jurisdiction into federal court so that he can pursue the death penalty. The Honorable David S. Norcross, who has been on the federal bench only two years, now presides overthe first death penalty case in the state in fifty years. He must contend not only with an ambitious female prosecutor and a brilliant veteran defense attorney, but with a citizenry outraged at the senseless killing of a white hockey mom-- not to mention the pressures of the media, anti-death penalty protesters, vengeful gang members, and the million other things that can go wrong in a capital trial. Michael A. Ponsor takes readers into the courtroom and beyond, presenting with great sensitivity the points of view of the defendant and his wife; the victims' families; law enforcement officers; witnesses; and the judge who, while still coming to terms with the death of his wife, begins a relationship with a woman he is not sure he can trust.