Tom Stechschulte
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Lucas Smothers, nineteen and from the wrong end of town, has been arrested for the rape and murder of a local girl. His lawyer Billy Bob Holland is convinced of Lucas's innocence but proving it means unearthing the truth from a seething mass of deceit and corruption. A corruption endemic in the way it can be only in a gossipy small town where everybody knows everybody else's business. Billy Bob's relationship with Lucas's family is not an easy one...
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[2010]
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After a few years as a POW, the hard-drinking lawyer Hack Holland should find the dusty Texas plains relatively calm and uneventful. Unexpectedly, his friends and family want him to run for Congress--and he's got a wealthy oil man's financial support. Yet everything changes for Hack when his hispanic buddy Arturo is convicted of assaulting a Texas Ranger. Attempting to overturn the conviction, Hack is drawn into a bitter civil rights dispute.