Edited by anniekins at 10-03-2023 04:52
For Butch Karp, chief assistant district attorney for NewYork County, the nightmare begins with the discovery of a newborn baby,apparently murdered, then casually discarded with the city's refuse. Goaded bythe media's sensational publicity, the public is screaming for blood, andKarp's boss, D.A. Jack Keegan, is listening. He has ordered the prosecution ofthe baby's fifteen-year-old mother for murder, intent on making a very publicexample of the girl. A Hispanic from a poor neighborhood, she's an easy markfor big-city bureaucracy and bigotry. It is Butch Karp's unpleasant job to seethat the prosecution gives the public what it wants: a quick and thoroughadministration of hard-line justice. Complicating matters further is Butch's wife, MarleneCiampi, a private investigator who has decided to return to practicing law. Herfirst case takes her a few hundred miles south to a small Delaware town, whereanother baby has been found, its lifeless body placed in a motel dumpster bytwo scared kids. Marlene is representing the mother, a doe-eyed middle-classsuburban teen who claims the baby was stillborn. Under pressure from the D.A.—a politically ambitious localprosecutor who is pressing to make it a case of capital murder—the infant'sfather is singing a different song, placing all the blame on the girl. With Butch and Marlene squaring off on opposite sides of anincreasingly incendiary national debate, things couldn't get any moretenseŠuntil a shocking turn of events puts their teenage daughter Lucy at thecenter of a horrifying crime. Suddenly, everything they believe in ischallenged, and they are drawn into a maelstrom of big-city politics andsmall-town values, where justice is sacrificed to the twin gods of publicperception and expediency—and Karp must struggle to salvage his self-respect,his career, and his life..
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