Exoneration

When junk science and a corrupt judge conspire against an innocent man sentenced to life in prison, only trial lawyer Katie Hornsby can save him.

Katie Hornsby is a brilliant young Detroit trial lawyer who specializes in pharmaceutical litigation. When she's recruited to defend Steve Brandenburg — accused of murdering his wife with succinylcholine, a powerful paralytic drug, during a horseback ride — she agrees to take on her first criminal case. Armed with expert toxicologists, Katie sets out to expose the prosecution's star witness, Dr. Fogarty, whose unprecedented test for detecting the drug in embalmed tissue defies the entire scientific literature. But the courtroom is rigged: Judge Mossberg is corrupt and coercive, determined to see Brandenburg convicted regardless of the evidence. In a case where junk science, judicial corruption, and an innocent man's life hang in the balance, Katie Hornsby is forced to fight the system itself. Second in the acclaimed Katie Hornsby series by Tom Bleakley.

Tom Bleakley is a trial lawyer who specializes in cases against the pharmaceutical industry as well as pro bono cases involving constitutional issues and matter of public interest. He has an extensive background in medicine and pharmacology, a Ph.D. in developmental psychology and has represented many children with prescription-caused birth defects in his trial experiences against the drug industry. In addition to previous novels dealing with the dangers of prescription drugs, Tom has co-authored a two-volume textbook, “A Teaching Program in Psychiatry.”