 | Courtroom 302: A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse by Steve Bogira
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $2.31 In the opening scene, police wagons unload prisoners picked up the night before to make their first appearances in court. Through the year, we see all the actors connected with one particular courtroom. Public defenders, prosecutors, private defense attorneys, defendants, defendants' family members, victims' family members all have a voice, if only briefly.
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 | A Trial by Jury by D. Graham Burnett
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $1.79 A young professor (history of science) is called for jury duty and ends up the foreman in a murder trial. This is his memoir of an intense week.
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 | Trial Stories (Law Stories) by Michael E. Tigar
Buy new: $36.00 / Used from: $24.30 Ten essays about a wide variety of trials -- Aaron Burr, Vioxx, Leopold and Loew, Pennzoil, ... Trial strategy, advocacy, human stories, and more.
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 | True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa by Michael Finkel
Buy new: $11.66 / Used from: $0.51 Sometimes real life deals out a coincidence worthy of Dickens (or Hiaasen). Here we have Michael Finkel, a N.Y. Times reporter fired in disgrace for fabricating a story, who meets up with Chris Longa, a suspected murderer who'd been hiding in Mexico telling people he was a N.Y. Times reporter: Michael Finkel. The real Finkel eventually writes this book. True crime and more.
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 | The Innocent Man by John Grisham
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Grisham applies his storytelling skills to non-fiction -- the interlocking sad stories of a couple of men who were wrongly convicted of a rape and murder and exonerated eleven years later. The tone is matter-of-fact, but the result is moving.
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 | Witness for the Defense: The Accused, the Eyewitness and the Expert Who Puts Memory on Trial by Dr. Elizabeth Loftus
Buy new: $16.19 / Used from: $1.64 A popularized account of some of the cases Beth Loftus has been a consultant on and the research her consultation was based on. A more scholarly work -- one of the most cited non-law books in law reviews, in fact, is her Eyewitness Testimony.
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 | Your Witness: Lessons on Cross-Examination by Steven F. Molo
Buy new: $29.50 / Used from: $27.48 "Every trial lawyer 'borrows' from other trial lawyers -- whether it is in stories we tell in final argument, approaches we use in cross-examination, or the way we may stand in the courtroom." Steven F. Molo, p. 244.
Here are 50 trial lawyers to borrow from -- or whose war stories you can simply sit back and enjoy.
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 | Doing Justice: A Trial Judge at Work by Robert Satter
Buy new: $34.95 / Used from: $31.27 Memoir by a superior court judge in Connecticut.
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