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Title: BLACK'S LAW: A Criminal Lawyer Reveals His Defense Strategies in Four Cliffhanger Cases by Roy Black ISBN: 0-684-86306-5 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 06 April, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.91 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Gripping real life drama & civics lesson rolled into one
Comment: I found this non-fiction book to be as captivating a read - and frankly, much better written - than many of the fictional legal thrillers and courtroom dramas filling the bookstore shelves these days. Add to that the fact that this book offers great insight into our criminal justice system and the import role of the criminal defense attorney in it, and you have a book that is, in my opinion, a must-read.
All that being said, I think that perhaps what impressed me most about this book is what is not in it - celebrity name dropping. Black is clearly set apart from some of his colleagues in the high profile defense lawyer set by his choices of cases to include in this book. Having represented a number of "household names" in cases which received considerable media attention, Black writes in his book about none of them, choosing instead cases in which he represented people outside of the public eye and who came from a variety of walks of life. He should be commended for this and his book is rendered all the more impactful by the lack of the "tabloid" element.
Rating: 5
Summary: A fascinating and true-to-life look at criminal trial law
Comment: For anyone who is interested in the way criminal trials really work -- not the Ally McBeal version, or the O.J. "Dream Team" version -- this is a great book. As a public defender I can tell you that Mr. Black's book is the real deal -- although he practices at a level that most of us can only aspire to. Mr. Black, like most great trial lawyers, is an excellent story-teller. The prose is simple, direct and entertaining. I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
Rating: 5
Summary: More Florida Death Penalty Litigation History:
Comment: First an introduction: From 1986 - 1992 I was employed as an investigator at the Office of Capital Collateral Representative (CCR) in Tallahassee, Florida, where Scharlette Holdman worked as the supervisor of the investigators from October 1985 - March 1988.
I have known Scharlette since the mid-1970s death penalty debates at Florida State University, including the debate between Professor Richard L. Rubenstein (author of "After Auschwitz", "My Brother Paul", "The Cunning of History: Mass Death and the American Future", "The Age of Triage", "Religion and Eros", and other books) vs. Baptist Minister and Philosopher Will Campbell (the debate was circa 1977).
Her office, the Clearinghouse on Criminal Justice, was in the same wing of the Petroleum Building as my office at Common Cause in Florida (where I was a full-time volunteer during the day and worked at the Brown Derby Restaurant at night from 1981 - 1986).
The Petroluem Building was next to the State Capital, the Florida Supreme Court and the State Archives and Library. When it was torn down, the space and the space for the first CCR office became the Mary Brogan Art and Science Museum and a storm water retaining pond. The Petroleum Building was called by those of us who worked or volunteered there the "Forces of Good" (FOG) Building -- as opposed to FOE -- Forces of Evil, such as Associated Industries, the Chamber and other big business interests in Florida. The FOG building also included (not an exhaustive list) the Clean Water Action Project, the ACLU, NOW, Florida Legal Services, Migrant Farmworker's Organization (directed by Cliff Thaell, who has more recently been a Leon County Commissioner for about ten years or more), Mike Vasilinda's television news service.
About every two years at CCR there was a Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist-Maoist purge due to the pressures and dysfunctions of the work and the people. I survived two such purges. With the third, I was the first to go in the spring and summer of 1992.
When Scharlette had essentially declared war upon CCR in 1987 and thereafter, some of us decided to investigate her background given some things that we had heard. Low and behold, Scharlette's claim of a PhD in anthropology from the University of Hawaii and a Master's Degree from (if my memory serves me correctly) the University of Birmingham don't exist.
We used Scharlette's Social Security number, her maiden name and her married name -- with all this information, both universities had no record of Scharlette having received any degrees from these institutions.
As I understand Scharlette, she needed the "degrees" to confer upon her "credentials" that she really never needed as she is indeed then and now a national expert on capital mitigation, litigation, etc. However Scharlette can be deceptive, as her lack of a PhD and Masters so demonstrates. Even today she claims to have the degrees as when she gives presentations regarding capital cases, she is identified as "Dr." A key word search of her name will bring up some of the presentations that she has made in the past several years with the title "Dr." preceding her name.
If she has received any honorary or other degrees since 1990, that would be new information for me. If anyone can assist in this matter, please contact me at [email protected] or my mailing address: P.O. Box 38458, Tallahassee, FL 32315-8458. Thank you.
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Title: The Best Defense by Alan M. Dershowitz ISBN: 039471380X Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 May, 1983 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Ladies And Gentlemen Of The Jury: Greatest Closing Arguments In Modern Law by Ben Bycel, H. Mitchell Caldwell, Michael S. Lief ISBN: 0684859483 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 15 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Art of Cross-Examination by Francis L. Wellman ISBN: 0684843048 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: The Trial Lawyers: The Nation's Top Litigators Tell How They Win by Emily Couric ISBN: 0312051727 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: November, 1990 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Letters to a Young Lawyer by Alan M. Dershowitz ISBN: 0465016316 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 16 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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