The Pelican Brief
1º Summary
Two Supreme Court Judges has been murdered. Darby Shaw, a law student,
wrote a brief (The Pelican Brief) about the linking between the two
murders and Vitor Mattience, the owner of an oil company which wants
to build a factory in the Louisiana's Marshlands and also a close
fiend of the United States' President. Shaw gave the brief to his
teacher (and boyfriend) Thomas Callaham who gave it to a FBI lawyer
friend of him. Several days after Callaham is murdered by a bomb-car.
Shaw get scared because the bomb was thought to kill her too and run
away from New Orleans.
Meanwhile Gary Graham, a Washington Post journalist, knew about the
Pelican Brief from a lawyer, who used the nickname of Garcia, and
wrote an article about it.
Shaw read Graham's article and called him. While Shaw travelled among
all the East Coast of USA running away from killers she phoned several
times to Graham. Finally they met in New York City.
Both, Shaw and Graham wanted to publish the Pelican Brief but first
they needed to affirm the information of the brief with another
source. And this source could be Garcia so they began a search all
over Washington with only a photo of him and a few details of his
private life. Finally after quite a lot of time they found Garcia's
widow. He were killed few weeks ago in strange circumstances. Luckily
he left in a safe box an affidavit and a video which confirmed the
information of the brief.
While the Washington Post published the story, starting the biggest
crisis in the United States since Watergate, Shaw and Graham flew to
the Virgin Islands.
2º Description of the main character of the book: Darby Shaw.
Darby Shaw is a smart law student at Tulane Uni...
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...el, and this will take another three or four months." Chapter
thirty. P 255
Bankruptcy: The estate of a person who had been adjudged by a court to
be insolvent. "Yeah, I worked in the bankruptcy section on the eight
floor, and oil and gas covers half of eight and all of nine." Chapter
thirty-six. P 332 & 333.
Lawsuit: court case brought by one person or group against another.
"Tell Jackson Feldman the lawsuit will be filed at nine in the
morning, just as soon as the courthouse opens." Chapter forty-two. P
392.
Affidavit: A sworn written statement used mainly for supporting
applications and as evidence in court proceedings. The person who
makes it must swear that the contents are true before a person
authorised to take oaths.
"It was a four-page affidavit, typed real neat and sworn to under oath
before a notary public". Chapter Forty. P. 367.
Pagan writes a captivating story mingled with the challenges of the Eastern Shore legal system. This book gives a complete explanation backed up by research and similar cases as evidence of the ever-changing legal system. It should be a required reading for a history or law student.
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