02286nam a2200337 a 4500 ebr10678734 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 121214s2013 msuaf sb 001 0 eng d 2012044379 9781617038006 (hardback) 9781621039532 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)821560870 n-us-ms HV6793.M7 H35 2013eb 364.1092/2762 23 Hailman, John. From midnight to guntown [electronic resource] : true crime stories from a federal prosecutor in Mississippi / John Hailman. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2013. xxiii, 398 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. Includes bibliographical references and index. "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"-- Provided by publisher. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Crime Mississippi History. Criminals Mississippi History. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10678734 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 59890 59890