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Dedication: To Catherine Hanan - My all-time favourite lawyer
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Epigraph: A rape! A rape! Yes, you have ravished justice; forced her to do your pleasure. - John Webster (1580-1625)
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Author's note: Certain real life events which occurred in the 1950s inspired my original stage play Assault with a Deadly Weapon. However, it would be wrong to draw exact parallels between those actual events and the events that are described in the film Gross Misconduct and this novel. Furthermore, through the many rewrites of the stage play, the screenplay and this novel, a lot has changed ...
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Assault with a Deadly Weapon
1970
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1970
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Gross Misconduct
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A tale of love, lust, and betrayal, Gross Misconduct is loosely based on the real-life events surrounding an American college professor who was wrongly accused of raping one of his female students in the 1950s. The professor, Justin Thorne, is well liked by his students and is also the envy of his peers. When a young girl's fantasy turns to obsession, however, it threatens to destroy everything he holds dear: his freedom, his family, and his career. Fearing to expose the real rapist because of the shame it will cause her, the student wrestles with her conscience, the only thing standing between the professor and long-term incarceration.
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