Michael Banister

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Trial and Error (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

Chet Holmes was a frustrated man. He had spent over a year trying to track down Douglas Armitage to present him with a sizable check from the estate of Holmes's client, but had no luck. Except now. He learned that an associate of his client had been killed in an auto accident while giving Douglas a ride to the airport so Douglas could fly to New York for college. The other vehicle was transporting an inmate to prison. Holmes knew that his client's associate had a passenger. But the accident report had to be mistaken, because it listed three persons killed without mentioning the passenger in the other vehicle. When Douglas's former roommate, Scott McCabe, saw Douglas on campus he called Holmes, who believed he could prove the inmate had survived the accident and was impersonating Douglas. Holmes convinced the campus police to arrest the man Holmes claimed was an imposter who had not only escaped lawful custody, but was defrauding the college. Trouble was, Holmes had never met McCabe's former roommate. And in the span of a year the alleged imposter no longer resembled McCabe's former roommate. At the preliminary hearing, would the prosecution be able to prove its case based on such slim evidence?

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Autor

I was an Army brat (Japan, Monterey, Austria, Germany) until we moved to Pittsburg, CA when I was nine. I was a voracious reader, and in junior high I published two science fiction stories in my school's creative writing magazine. After a long hiatus, I began writing again in my junior year of college at UC Berkeley. I joined a group of acquaintances in 1969 who started a poetry magazine we called The Open Cell. We contributed the content, did the layout, printed it at Waller Press in the Haight Ashbury district, and sold it on the streets of Berkeley and San Francisco. That experience rekindled my love of writing. I transferred from Berkeley (where I was a comparative literature major) to SF State as a creative writing major and wrote poetry and a few stories.
Upon graduation in 1972 my first wife and I joined the Peace Corps and worked as ESL teachers in Ethiopia for two years.
Grad school followed, twice, and I obtained a Master in Communication at University of Washington and a Master in Librarianship at UC Berkeley. My writing during those years became decidedly academic and non-creative.
After nine years as a librarian (including two as head librarian at Robert College of Istanbul), followed by a divorce, I decided librarians got no respect, so I went to law school where I wrote a law review article discussing a controversial Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision. I became an attorney, remarried, and worked for 23 years at the California Attorney General's Office, Criminal Division, and wrote appellate briefs. After I retired in 2011 I began volunteering for the National Veterans Legal Services Program. I represented veterans and their dependents for seven years. In December 2019 I won a substantial award of past-due benefits for a widow whose Viet Nam vet husband had died of liver cancer due to exposure to Agent Orange.
I'm married and have two grown sons and a granddaughter who graduated from the University of Oregon in 2019. I changed my California state bar license to inactive after my December 2016 victory involving veteran's benefits.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Michael Banister
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780463579664
• Artikelnr.: 70918784