Witness for the Defense: The Accused, the Eyewitness and the Expert Who Puts Memory on Trial6 reviews Elizabeth Loftus, Katherine Ketcham St. Martin's Griffin, 1992 There Is No Photo Album In The Brain + For the lay reader + An expert's thoughts on Ted Bundy + Reveals how tricks the mind plays can lead to injustice             Rough Justice: Days and Nights of a Young D.A.2 reviews David Heilbroner Pantheon, 1990 Funny, poignant, and brilliant memoire of former prosecutor + ROUGH JUSTICE It's a pity if this book is not widely read. It is the most well-written and vivid acount of how it is like to be an Assistant District Attorney among anything similar I have read so far. And it describes very persuasively how a young prosecutor with a high ideal will eventually be burned out. ...             Cover-up14 reviews Michele Martinez William Morrow, 2007 Excellent legal thriller + Will Keep You Awake At Night + Another winner! Bottom line: If you enjoy legal thrillers, I think you will love this book. It is definitely more of a legal thriller than a courtroom drama; little time in the book is spent in court and it is full of suspense as federal prosecutor Melanie Vargas works with the police and FBI to track a twisted ...             Politics by Other Means: Politicians, Prosecutors, and the Press from Watergate to Whitewater, Third Edition3 reviews Benjamin Ginsberg, Martin Shefter W. W. Norton & Company, 2002 the political shift This was an excellent book. The authors took an extensive look at the shift in the approach to politics today and examined how the shift stems out of history; including references to political parties and the media. The book explains, in an insightful way, how the current focus on prosecution of ...             The Prosecutors: A Year in the Life of a District Attorney's Office12 reviews Gary Delsohn Dutton Adult, 2003 The Prosecutors + Classic Journalism Revived An absolutely outstanding writer! This is a book you can't put down, but don't want to finish reading because you don't want the pleasure to end. The writer captures your interest from the very beginning and weaves his story through multiple cases, which are all in the legal process at the same ...             Offer of Proof29 reviews Robert Heilbrun HarperTorch, 2004 Definitely a winner..so many things to like about this + Really great story telling, but needed more careful editing to eliminate gratuitous use of ethnic stereotypes and vulgarity. + Absolutely Wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! + 4 1/2 Stars -- A Real Page-Turner!             Fatal Justice: Reinvestigating the Macdonald Murders32 reviews Jerry Allen Potter, Fred Bost W. W. Norton & Company, 1997 Fatal Logic on the part of the Police Investigators. If anything is good about this book,it is that it reopens debate on an interesting criminal case.On the surface,Jeffery MacDonald appears guilty.Yet,when you dissect every aspect of the case,his motive for murder doesn't make sense.I read that Inez Folger,at the age of 100,passed away some days ...             Prosecutorial Ethics (American Casebook Series)1 review R. Michael Cassidy West Group Publishing, 2005 An Incredibly Informative and Thought Provoking Read This book is a must read for anyone even remotely interested in the field of prosecution, and even law for that matter. The author, a professor at Boston College, is able to fit an astounding amount of information in a fairly small space and it is not a tedious read as many other books that I have ...             The Count and the Confession: A True Murder Mystery15 reviews John Taylor Vintage, 2003 Can't put it down...so far + Brings Fact to Cliche "Truth is Stranger than Ficton" I started this book two days ago and I find it hard to tear myself away from it...although I have not yet finished this book, I felt the need to write a review because no other reviews had yet been written and I wanted to share the wonderful news: this is a good one, folks! It is a well-laid-out ...             In Spite Of Innocence: Erroneous Convictions in Capital Cases5 reviews Michael L. Radelet, Hugo Adam Bedau, ... Northeastern, 1994 A new look at the criminal justice system. + The truth comes out.... In our system of justice the worst case scenario is to be convicted of capitol crime and sentenced to death. Even worse than that is that fact you are innocent of the crime. This book exposes some serious miscarriages of the system. The authors, in great detail explain how over 400 Americans ...             Actual Innocence: When Justice Goes Wrong and How to Make it Right17 reviews Barry Scheck, Peter Neufeld, ... NAL Trade, 2003 A Must Read + Essential reading + Justice? + Barry Scheck you have redemed yourself.             D.A.: Prosecutors in Their Own Words5 reviews Mark Baker Simon & Schuster, 1999 Like talking face to face + A Perspective Worth Reading With movies and tv shows that center on courtrooms as popular as ever - and an entire cable channel devoted to trials on television - it is refreshing to get a picture of prosecutors by hearing their own words. Oral historian Mark Baker sums up the situation in his chapter openers, but refrains ...             Falsely Accused12 reviews Robert K. Tanenbaum Signet, 1997 Back on form! + My first Tanenbaum read + great book, but really + Tension to the Last Drop             The Exonerated6 reviews Susan Sarandon, Aidan Quinn Monterey Video, 2006 A Staggering Film That Should Be Required Viewing + Good and True + excellent! The truth is tough, the truth must be faced, and the truth is what THE EXONERATED is all about. A project started by writers Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen in 2000 when, in response to a lecture on capital punishment, the couple was moved by the telephone voice of one of the many innocent people ...             After Innocence4 reviews New Yorker Video, 2007 After Innocence, the Machinery that Manufactures Wrongful Convictions Still Operates + Every Juror (and voter) Should Watch "After Innocence" + simply incredible I saw this movie in a theater, when it debuted in Los Angeles. I estimate there were between 100 and 150 people in the audience. It would hardly be fair to say the event was a movie debut, without pointing out that the movie debut also appeared to be an event actively showcasing the cause of the ...             Mean Justice: A Town's Terror, a Prosecutor's Power, a Betrayal of Innocence50 reviews Edward Humes Simon & Schuster, 1999 Power gone awry + It's about time + A Must Read. I've been interested in issues of criminal justice, particularly those of the witch hunts of the last several years. You know, there was the McMartin trial, a joke of astronomical proportions. Then there were "recovered memory" cases, and those of the alleged Satanic conspiracies. It seems the ...             The Prosecutors: Inside the Offices of the Government's Most Powerful Lawyers3 reviews James B. Stewart Simon & Schuster, 1987 James Stewart knows how to tell a story + The Law As Scalpel And Hammer + Insider Prosecution This is an excellent collection of true life vignettes about prosecutors and the cases they work on. The chapter discussing Rudy Giuliani's tenure in the justice department during the Reagan administration (written long before he became mayor of NYC) is particularly interesting because it portrays ...             Bad Blood: A Novel (Alexandra Cooper Mysteries)33 reviews Linda Fairstein Scribner, 2007 One of her best + Bad Blood + This series keeps going strong! A very good well-rounded book. Can't wait for the next 1, or 5 or 6.             Mockery of Justice: The True Story of the Sam Sheppard Murder Case15 reviews Cynthia L. Cooper, Sam Reese Sheppard Onyx, 1997 Unfair Press Coverage & Biased Officials + Personal Investigations + Fascinating Story Well Told The reason I gave only 4 out of 5 stars is because in my opinion there should have been a bit more editing to help the continuity. At times the changing from one person's perspective to another's and jarring leaps from one time frame to another makes for choppy reading. Also there are times when it ...             A Good Conviction16 reviews Lewis M. Weinstein WingSpan Press, 2007 Great second book + A Scary Thought + A Good Conviction - A Great Read + A GOOD CONVICTION