Confessions of a Criminal Lawyer

Confessions of a Criminal Lawyer PDF

Author: Seymour Wishman

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2013-03-19

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 1480406066

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DIVA successful former defense attorney exposes the raw truth about the courtroom “game” and a career spent defending the guilty/divDIV As an advocate for the accused in Newark, New Jersey, criminal lawyer Seymour Wishman defended a vast array of clients, from burglars and thieves to rapists and murderers. Many of them were poor and undereducated, and nearly all of them were guilty. But it was not Wishman’s duty to pass moral judgment on those he represented. His job was to convince a jury to set his clients free or, at the very least, to impose the most lenient punishment permissible by law. And he was very good at his job. Reveling in the adrenaline rush of “winning,” Wishman gave no thought to the ethical considerations of his daily dealings . . . until he was confronted on the street by a rape victim he had humiliated in the courtroom./divDIV /divDIVA fascinating, no-holds-barred memoir of his years spent as “attorney for the damned,” Wishman’s Confessions of a Criminal Lawyer is a startling and important work—an eye-opening, thought-provoking examination of how the justice system works and how it should work—by an attorney who both defended and prosecuted those accused of the most horrific crimes./div

Confessions of a Free Speech Lawyer

Confessions of a Free Speech Lawyer PDF

Author: Rodney A. Smolla

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2020-05-15

Total Pages: 447

ISBN-13: 1501749668

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In the personal and frank Confessions of a Free Speech Lawyer, Rodney A. Smolla offers an insider's view on the violent confrontations in Charlottesville during the "summer of hate." Blending memoir, courtroom drama, and a consideration of the unhealed wound of racism in our society, he shines a light on the conflict between the value of free speech and the protection of civil rights. Smolla has spent his career in the thick of these tempestuous and fraught issues, from acting as lead counsel in a famous Supreme Court decision challenging Virginia's law against burning crosses, to serving as co-counsel in a libel suit brought by a fraternity against Rolling Stone magazine for publishing an article alleging that one of the fraternity's initiation rituals included gang rape. Smolla has also been active as a university leader, serving as dean of three law schools and president of one and railing against hate speech and sexual assault on US campuses. Well before the tiki torches cast their ominous shadows across the nation, the city of Charlottesville sought to relocate the Unite the Right rally; Smolla was approached to represent the alt-right groups. Though he declined, he came to wonder what his history of advocacy had wrought. Feeling unsettlingly complicit, he joined the Charlottesville Task Force, and he realized that the events that transpired there had meaning and resonance far beyond a singular time and place. Why, he wonders, has one of our foundational rights created a land in which such tragic clashes happen all too frequently?

Confessions of an Old Cracker Lawyer

Confessions of an Old Cracker Lawyer PDF

Author: Ander P. Gibbs Esquire

Publisher:

Published: 2013-07

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9781478705000

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A seasoned trial lawyer unwraps the mystic inside Florida's court rooms, and reveals that, even through each victory or defeat, you can still apply the lessons you learned as a child! Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes of the courtroom? What laws shape the cities you live in? Who are the people, sitting behind the bench, fighting the fights, or standing up for the rights of others? This memoir is a small glimpse into the courtroom, from an experienced trial lawyer who came from the school of hard knocks. A.P. Gibbs provides an insightful and colorful view of the courtroom, while also examining his own background and the forces that shaped him, as an attorney. Get ready for a historical journey through small town America, as seen through the eyes, of an Old Cracker Lawyer. Ander Gibbs is a native Floridian who was raised in a large family of 9 children in Madison Florida, a small rural town in north Florida. He graduated from Florida State University with a degree in accounting and from the University of Florida Law School with a J D in Law. He is a retired Captain in the United Stated Marine Corps Reserves. Mr. Gibbs practiced law in Pasco, Hillsborough, and surrounding counties for 43 years prior to his retirement in 2011. He tried hundreds of criminal and civil cases during his career and practiced law in numerous state courts in Florida, the Federal District Court, Southern District of Florida, the United States 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, as well as the Supreme Court of the United States.

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