01133nam a22001217a 4500020001800000082001100018100002900029245004800058260003700106300002800143520077900171650006100950  a9780345407610  a813.54  aPatterson, Richard North  aThe Final JudgmentcRichard North Patterson  aNew YorkbBallantine Booksc1997  a500 Pagesb17x10 cmbPB  aLong estranged from her blue-blooded New England family, attorney Caroline Masters is summoned home to defend her niece against charges of murder. Police found twenty-two year-old Brett Allen blood-splattered and incoherent near the scene of the crime, the weapon covered with her fingerprints. Caroline has doubts of her own about Brett's innocence. But as the sensational trial heats up, she'll find disturbing inconsistencies in the testimony of the prosecution's star witness and find herself facing some of the toughest challenges of her life and careet--from trusting her former lover, state prosecutor Jackson Watts, to risking the federal judgeship she's worked her whole life for, to exposing a dark family secret that could save her niece or destroy them both ...   aTrials (Murder)aWomen lawyersaNew Hampshire -- Fiction