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\nThe Holdout by Graham Moore
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\nIt's the most sensational case of the decade. Fifteen-year-old Jessica Silver\, heiress to a billio n-dollar real estate fortune\, vanishes on her way home from school. Her t eacher Bobby Nock\, a twenty-five-year-old African American man\, is the p rime suspect after illicit text messages are discovered between them\, and Jessica's blood is found in his car. The subsequent trial taps straight i nto America's most pressing preoccupations: race\, class\, sex\, law enfor cement\, and the lurid sins of the rich and famous. It's an open and shut case for the prosecution\, and a quick conviction seems all but guaranteed . Until Maya Seale\, a young woman on the jury\, convinced of Nock's innoc ence\, persuades the rest of the jurors to return the verdict of not guilt y\, a controversial decision that will change all of their lives forever. Flash forward ten years. A true-crime docuseries reassembles the jurors\, with particular focus on Maya\, now a defense attorney herself. When one o f the jurors is found dead in Maya's hotel room\, all evidence points to h er as the killer. Now\, she must prove her own innocence by getting to the bottom of a case that is far from closed. As the present-day murder inves tigation weaves together with the story of what really happened during the ir deliberation\, told by each of the jurors in turn\, the secrets they ha ve all been keeping threaten to come out with drastic consequences for all involved" -- Provided by publisher.
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