Summary Of The Brass Verdict By Michael Connelly

These past few weeks I have read the book The Brass Verdict, written by Michael Connelly, and is the second installment in the Haller series. This marvelous book was published on October 14, 2008 and is 422 pages in length. The crime and fiction novel is based around the main character named Michael (Mickey) Haller, who is a defense attorney in the city of Los Angeles. Despite spending a year recovering from his wounds, as well as an addiction to painkillers from the previous installment, Mickey is requested to return to his career of law after an old defense attorney friend of his, Jerry Vincent, was murdered. He is called to take on Vincent's workload, which contains many cases, such as the notorious trial of Walter Elliott. Elliott

Mickey secures the trial and case, promising Elliott he will not postpone the trial, which starts in nine days. Whilst Mickey worries about the trial, Harry Bosch, who is an LAPD detective as well as the main character in other novels, investigates the murder of Jerry Vincent. Another case that Mickey takes on from Vincent's workload is about a former surfing champion stealing a diamond necklace from a friend's house while under the influence of his addiction to painkillers. Mickey pities the surfer because of his own former addiction to painkillers and hires him to drive his Lincoln car. With the help of his ex-wife, Loma, and his investigator, Cisco, Mickey creates a plan to defend his client, using the fact that the residue from a gunshot that was discovered on Elliott's hands were from being transported in a police squad vehicle used to transport a different person earlier that day. Mickey does not think the double homicide was targeting Mitzi or her German lover at all. Elliott later confesses he is affiliated with the Mafia and thinks it was them who killed Jerry Vincent as well as his wife, connecting the two cases. Mickey is later suspicious of a jury member in the trial, believing Vincent bribed someone to plant the juror in the trial to

The term "brass verdict" is police slang for street justice, where a guilty individual is shot. It also refers to the brass casings of a bullet being fired at said guilty