The Lincoln Lawyer Novel Summary
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plead guilty for something he never do. Afterward, Haller relearned this case and found out that there was something that Roulet hide from him. Finally
Haller knew the fact that Roulet was really a criminal. He admitted that he previously killed another prostitute named Dona Renteria. These whole
evidences recalled Haller’s memory to his previous client named Jesus
Martinez. He was falsely charged for murdering Dona Rentaria but the entire evidences supported it. Eventually, the prosecutor won the lawsuit and he
demanded the judge to give him a death sentence. At that time Haller persuaded Martinez to plead guilty in order to build a strategy. By doing this,
they could avoid the death sentence since there was no way they would win the case. In the end, Martinez perforced to plead guilty in the trial and Haller
could convince the judge and the juries, so Martinez got commutation. Luckily he was just imprisoned for 15 years instead of death sentence.
Knowing these facts, Haller tried to make this thing right by freeing Martinez out of the prison. Unfortunately, he absolutely could not do this
action because he was still in chain to Roulet for the current case. Knowing this incapability, Haller found out that this was the reason why Roulet chose
Haller as his defense lawyer since he already anticipate Haller for being turn to sue against him. Besides, he was already known that Haller would never be
able to sue his own client nor simply resigned from defending his client, since it would make him lose his lawyer license.
Haller’s dilemma began when his investigator and best friend of him, Raul Levin got killed along with his dog in his own house. Haller soon found
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the clue that the murderer was Roulet himself. Since previously he got Roulet broke into his house and stole his gun, which then he used to kill Levin. One
side Haller had to defend Roulet in his case, on the other side, he really wanted to put Roulet in jail for murdering Levin and also Renteria.
Since Haller could not resign from the trial, he had no other choice but perforced to defense Roulet in the trial against the prosecutor, police, and the
entire prosecutors witness including a Jailhouse snitch. Yet he did it under compulsory duty since he could lose his defense lawyer license if he simply
resigned from defending his client. Having no other choice, Haller eventually prepared his strategy to face the trial. At the same time he wanted to take a
revenge to the fresh prosecutor who previously humiliated him at the previous plea bargain in the DA office. Haller would give the prosecutor a lesson that
he could destroy his career for the fraudulence that he had done to him. When the trial began, Haller shattered all the charges and claim by the
prosecutor and the victim against Roulet from the start until the end of the trial. This was done by highlighting positive self-representation and negative
other representation in order to deliver allegation. This strategy successfully reversed the entire claims, making the adversary party, such as the victim, the
prosecutor, and prosecutor ’s witness looked like the real criminal who
attempted to imprison an innocent man. At the end of the trial, Haller convinced the judge and jury of the
courtroom that the victim, along with the prosecutor, had fabricated their testimony to set Roulet up. Moreover, Haller showed that the prosecutor as a
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cunning person who conducted a dirty game in order to win the state case. Louis Roulet was finally given a not guilty verdict by the judge and all
charges against him were all drop. On the other hand, the prosecutor, Ted Minton was eventually fired from the DA office. The Jailhouse snitch was
blacklisted by the judge and the victim lost her right in the trial. Soon after the victory was accomplished from trial, Haller took revenge
of his friend ’s death by bringing Roulet back to the jail for murdering Raul
Levin and Dona Renteria. At first, Haller and the police did not have enough evidence to imprison him, so Roulet could free to go. In the end, Haller got
enough evidence to imprison Roulet and set his previous client, Martinez free. At last, the murderer of Raul Levin was fina
lly known. It was Roulet’s mother herself.
This fact was admitted by Roulet’s mother herself when she broke into Haller’s house. She tried to kill Haller for imprisoning her son. After she
admitted that she was the one who killed Levin, she shot Haller on his stomach with
Haller’s own gun. It was the same gun she used to kill Levin. Luckily, Haller brought
his driver’s gun, so he could shoot her back and she died eventually.