TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hailman,John
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - From midnight to guntown: true crime stories from a federal prosecutor in Mississippi 
AV  - HV6793.M7 H35 2013eb
U1  - 364.1092/2762 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Jackson
PB  - University Press of Mississippi
KW  - Crime
KW  - Mississippi
KW  - History
KW  - Criminals
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
N2  - "As a federal prosecutor in Mississippi for over thirty years, John Hailman worked with federal agents, lawyers, judges, and criminals of every stripe. In From Midnight to Guntown, he recounts amazing trials and bad guy antics from the darkly humorous to the needlessly tragic. In addition to bank robbers--generally the dumbest criminals--Hailman describes scam artists, hit men, protected witnesses, colorful informants, corrupt officials, bad guys with funny nicknames, over-the-top investigators, and those defendants who had a certain roguish charm. Several of his defendants and victims have since had whole books written about them: Dickie Scruggs, Emmett Till, Chicago gang leader Jeff Fort, and Paddy Mitchell, leader of the most successful bank robbery gang of the twentieth century. But Hailman delivers the inside story no one else can. He also recounts his scary experiences after 9/11 when he prosecuted terrorism cases"--
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10678734
ER  -