Who did it?

The story opens when student is murdered at East Boston High School and a student who saw the dead body runs to the Street Law Center for help. The story centers around this murder and all the people involved in the case. So most of the novel is the story of that murder trial and the surrounding events. The actual intent is to follow along as the accused student is brought to trial. The students will be immersed into the events surrounding the murder as they happened through the eyes of the people involved. To help the reader and the students understand the story, basic legal procedures and constitutional law points are explained. The students will be immersed into the events surrounding the murder as they happened through the eyes of the people involved. The defendant will be followed as he goes through the legal process. A dramatic conclusion will culminate in following the sensational murder investigation and the reenactment of the first degree murder trial.

Joseph A. Terilli was educated at Harvard and Boston College. He has had a career in law, politics, education, and business. He grew up in East Boston, moved to Reading and now lives in Stoneham, Massachusetts. For more than fifty years he has been a teacher and has developed curriculum in such varied subjects as law, history, business, geopolitical issues and geophysics. Most of his writing has been professional articles and research. Blood on the Chalkboard is his first novel.