Download or read book My Life as a Prosecutor written by Fred Riley and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the age of ten, Fred Riley joined a gang of kids from his neighborhood corner in a section of Revere, MA called Beachmont. Later this gang merged with another Beachmont gang and together they faced the hostilities of two notorious Boston gangs, involved in the underworld wars of the late 50's thru the 70' s that led to numerous deaths. These confrontations were personal for Fred. The South Boston gang led by Donald Killeen & Whitey Bulger was called the "Gustin Street Gang," the East Boston gang was led by the infamous Joe "the animal” Barboza. A transformative event takes place as Fred is faced with the decision to kill an adversary. In a troubled state of mind, Fred walks aimlessly around Boston and ends up on Beacon Hill facing Suffolk University. The Athletic Director, Mr. Law, had offered Fred a basketball scholarship when he was in high school. Mr. Law was in his office that day and remembered Fred. He was instrumental in getting Fred accepted to Suffolk University. Fred's choice that fateful day led to a distinguished career prosecuting organized crime figures and public corruption at the highest level of state government while serving four governors.
Download or read book Moving the Bar written by Michael Ratner and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Michael Ratner (1943-2016) was one of America's leading human rights lawyers. He worked for more than four decades at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) becoming first the Director of Litigation and then the President of what Alexander Cockburn called "a small band of tigerish people." He was also the President of the National Lawyers Guild. Ratner handled some of the most significant cases In American history. This book tells why and how he did it. His last case, which he worked on until he died, was representing truth-telling whistleblower and now political prisoner Julian Assange, the editor of WikiLeaks. Ratner "moved the bar" by organizing some 600 lawyers to successfully defend habeas corpus, that is, the ancient right of someone accused of a crime to have a lawyer and to be brought before a judge. Michael had a piece of paper taped on the wall next to his desk at the CCR. It read: 4 key principles of being a radical lawyer: 1. Do not refuse to take a case just because it is long odds of winning in court. 2. Use cases to publicize a radical critique of US policy and to promote revolutionary transformation. 3. Combine legal work with political advocacy. 4. Love people. Compelling and instructive, Moving the Bar is an indispensable manual for the next generation of activists and their lawyers"--Publisher's description.
Download or read book The Best Story Wins written by John Bobo and published by Tower Publishing Company. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Real advice for new & experienced prosecutors from an author that has lived the District Attorney's life.
Download or read book My Life in Court written by Louis Nizer and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 1074 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this electrifying bestseller, the shrewd and voluble trial lawyer Louis Nizer, who made a long career of representing famous people in famous cases, recounts some of his significant civil and criminal cases. Nizer rose to national fame with his real-life accounts of tension-filled courtrooms and the fervor of the advocate, and “My Life in Court” proved to be no exception: it rose to the top of the Times’s best-seller list on its publication in 1961 and logged 72 weeks as a sales leader. The book is an in-depth collection of some of Mr. Nizer’s court case success stories, including his client Quentin Reynolds’ famous libel action against the columnist Westbrook Pegler, which would also become the basis of the 1963 Broadway play “A Case of Libel.” Praised by critics as “entertaining and philosophically instructive, an unusual combination,” Nizer’s movie-like plots of real-life courtroom drama will keep you captivated until the very last page.
Download or read book Ordinary Injustice written by Amy Bach and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an award-winning lawyer-reporter, a radically new explanation for America’s failing justice system The stories of grave injustice are all too familiar: the lawyer who sleeps through a trial, the false confessions, the convictions of the innocent. Less visible is the chronic injustice meted out daily by a profoundly defective system. In a sweeping investigation that moves from small-town Georgia to upstate New York, from Chicago to Mississippi, Amy Bach reveals a judicial process so deeply compromised that it constitutes a menace to the people it is designed to serve. Here is the public defender who pleads most of his clients guilty; the judge who sets outrageous bail for negligible crimes; the prosecutor who brings almost no cases to trial; the court that works together to achieve a wrong verdict. Going beyond the usual explanations of bad apples and meager funding, Bach identifies an assembly-line approach that rewards shoddiness and sacrifices defendants to keep the court calendar moving, and she exposes the collusion between judge, prosecutor, and defense that puts the interests of the system above the obligation to the people. It is time, Bach argues, to institute a new method of checks and balances that will make injustice visible—the first and necessary step to any reform. Full of gripping human stories, sharp analyses, and a crusader’s sense of urgency, Ordinary Injustice is a major reassessment of the health of the nation’s courtrooms.
Download or read book D A written by Mark Baker and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of "Cops" comes a riveting and often shocking inside look at the criminal justice system, as told by those who know it best--the district attorneys who prosecute crime in America.
Download or read book Doing Justice written by Preet Bharara and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *A New York Times Bestseller* An important overview of the way our justice system works, and why the rule of law is essential to our survival as a society—from the one-time federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, and host of the Doing Justice podcast. Preet Bharara has spent much of his life examining our legal system, pushing to make it better, and prosecuting those looking to subvert it. Bharara believes in our system and knows it must be protected, but to do so, he argues, we must also acknowledge and allow for flaws both in our justice system and in human nature. Bharara uses the many illustrative anecdotes and case histories from his storied, formidable career—the successes as well as the failures—to shed light on the realities of the legal system and the consequences of taking action. Inspiring and inspiringly written, Doing Justice gives us hope that rational and objective fact-based thinking, combined with compassion, can help us achieve truth and justice in our daily lives. Sometimes poignant and sometimes controversial, Bharara's expose is a thought-provoking, entertaining book about the need to find the humanity in our legal system as well as in our society.
Download or read book Sheer Madness written by Andrew McKenna and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-11-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A successful man's maniacal descent into emotional hell. Following repeated losses in family court, estrangement from his young sons, and the resulting depression, he checks himself into the psychiatric ward. Five months later he is indicted by a Federal Grand Jury for crimes that could put him in prison for 20 years. Sheer Madness is a story fo love, anguish, the fog of human experience, and the promise of resilience.--Back cover.
Download or read book The Prosecutors written by Gary Delsohn and published by Plume Books. This book was released on 2004-07-27 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depicting American justice at its best and worst, Delsohn lifts the lid off today's legal system with details that are more shocking and graphic than any television show or bestselling novel.
Download or read book No Higher Calling No Greater Responsibility written by John W. Suthers and published by Fulcrum Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-16 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A balanced critique of the justice system."—Steven Carter, former Indiana attorney generalDemystifying the powerful role of public prosecutors in the United States, John Suthers draws on more than thirty years' experience as a prosecutor in his exploration of this public office, even tackling some controversial calls for reform.
Download or read book A Target on my Back written by Erleigh Wiley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murders don't happen in Kaufman County, Texas, a sleepy community where people raise their kids quietly and drive into Dallas for work and entertainment. In 2013, murder came to town when two professional prosecutors were slain in cold blood, simply for doing their jobs: one in broad daylight in plain view of the courthouse, and one in his home, along with his wife. Eric Williams is responsible for all the bloodshed, and he has a list of who to kill next. A Target on My Back is the first-person true story of Erleigh Wiley, an accomplished lawyer who accepted the job as the new district attorney, after the death of her predecessors, which turned her into the next target on the killer's hit list. This is her story of how she and her family endured the storm of the press, the array of Homeland Security agents assigned to protect them 24/7, and the weight of knowing she was someone's prey. Though fearing for her life, she served as the prosecution's final witness against the murderer, sealing his fate on death row. This chilling account of how she survived the hit list is a terrifying cat and mouse tale.
Download or read book Just Pursuit written by Laura Coates and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A ... true story and ... account of bias in the courtroom from CNN senior legal analyst Laura Coates, recounting her time as a Black female prosecutor for the US Department of Justice"--
Download or read book Getting a Winning Verdict in My Personal Life written by J. Gary Gwilliam and published by Pavior Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Model Rules of Professional Conduct written by American Bar Association. House of Delegates and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2007 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.
Download or read book Law and Disorder written by Robert Silbering and published by WriteLife Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the real stuff. It's about the people who make the decisions on how cases are handled, the different units and bureaus in the prosecutor's office, and takes the reader into "the room where it happens," the place where decisions are made at the highest level and where policy is set. Written from a prosecutor's standpoint, this book touches on the relevant and timely issues facing the country and law enforcement today. It deals with police and prosecutor relationships, drug legalization, the opioid crisis, and dealing with violent juvenile crime.
Download or read book Prosecutor Defender Counselor written by Robert B. Fiske and published by Seapoint Books and Media. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legal biography of Robert B. Fiske, Jr.
Download or read book And Justice for All written by Terry Lord and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: …And Justice for All By: Terry Lord This memoir reflects the story of how a young boy from modest means in Dallas excelled to lifelong values of honesty, integrity and courage. This led him into a career of law enforcement and the pursuit of justice. This occupation brought him becoming a career federal prosecutor, serving in cities across the United States, fighting crime and chasing the Rule of Law. Mr. Lord went on to become a manager in the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice, he was instrumental in introducing methods of promoting effective law enforcement in areas such as customs fraud, industrial health and safety, immigration and international trade violations and child exploitation. …And Justice for All gives an inside look of what justice really looks like in the criminal justice system. Everything is not what it seems, determining a specific criminal activity that is vastly complicated and has a tremendous impact on the judicial health of a community and the country. This memoir tackles complex issues that influence local, state, national and international law enforcements. For readers hoping for an informative, suspenseful memoir with a personal touch …And Justice for All does not disappoint.
