How Can You Represent Those People [Hardcover]

How Can You Represent Those People? is the first-ever collection of essays offering a response to the 'Cocktail Party Question' asked of every criminal lawyer. A must-read for anyone interested in race, poverty, crime, punishment, and what makes lawyers tick.Preface 1. 'Defending the Guilty' after 30 Years; Barbara Babcock 2. How Can You Prosecute Those People?; Paul Butler 3. How Can You Defend Those People?; Tucker Carrington 4. There but for the Grace of God Go I; Angela J. Davis 5. Why I Defend the Guilty and Innocent Alike; Alan M. Dershowitz 6. Why It's Essential to Represent 'Those People; Monroe H. Freedman 7. Defending Civil Rights; Vida B. Johnson 8. Ruminations on Us and Them; Joseph Margulies 9. Wrecking Life: When the State Seeks to Kill; William R. Montross, Jr. and Meghan Shapiro 10. 'Those People' Are Us; Ann Roan 11. Representing Sex Offenders; David A. Singleton 12. How Can You Not Defend Those People?; Abbe Smith 13. Fair Play; Robin Steinberg 14. Defending . . . Still; Michael E. Tigar 15. Not Only in America: The Necessity of Representing 'Those People' in a Free and Democratic Society; Alice Woolley

When I was a criminal defense lawyer I was asked 'The Question' so many times I got sick of it. It takes an essay to fully answer, and this book has fifteen brilliant ones. Some of the essays are laugh-out-loud funny, others deeply moving. Read them all and you'll understand why everyone guilty or innocent, you or me is entitled to a good lawyer. - John Grisham, author of The Runaway Jury

Defense attorneys may find themselves asking where this book has been all their lives . . . If [one of these essays] were to magically end up on every required reading list in the country, America would be the better for it. - The Champion

How Can You Represent Those People? is a marvel of different and worthwhile insights that make this volume an important one to anyone with the slightest interest in criminal law. lÁ