Seymour Wishman

Anatomy of a Jury (eBook, ePUB)

The Inside Story of How Twelve Ordinary People Decide the Fate of an Accused Murderer

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An acclaimed trial attorney presents a mock murder case to explore the jury system in this "compelling ... intelligent ... provocative" work ( The New York Times Book Review). Creating a composite legal case based on real-life criminal investigations and trials, Seymour Wishman's Anatomy of a Jury carries us from crime scene to courthouse to jury room, providing a fascinating, behind-the-scenes look into the nation's criminal justice system. In autumn 1982, in the affluent New Jersey community of Glen Ridge, a woman is found brutally murdered in her home. The victim's distraught husband points police to a likely perpetrator: an African American handyman with a criminal record. A search of the suspect's home reveals nothing, but still the man is indicted for the crime. His ultimate fate is to be determined by "a jury of his peers"-twelve strangers with no special legal skills or training and a fervent desire to do what is right. As dramatic and riveting as it is educational, Wishman's staging and analysis of a criminal trial is a "rousing endorsement of the jury and a superb description of how the system really operates" ( St. Louis Dispatch).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Road Media
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781480406056
• Artikelnr.: 44661896

Autorenporträt

Seymour Wishman is a legal expert, novelist, playwright, and nonfiction author. Wishman graduated from Rutgers School of Law in 1965 and went on to be an assistant prosecutor in Essex County, a criminal and civil rights lawyer in New York and New Jersey, and a deputy assistant to US President Carter in the Office of Public Liaison.In 1984, he became president of First Run Features. Wishman is the author of the memoir Confessions of a Criminal Lawyer, the nonfiction title Anatomy of a Jury,and the novel Question of Consent. He lives in New York City.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Part One: Who Shall Judge Me?
Chapter I.
Chapter II.
Part Two: Those Chosen to Judge
Chapter III.
Chapter IV.
Part Three: The Trial
Chapter V.
Chapter VI.
Chapter VII.
Part Four: Judgments
Chapter VIII.
Chapter IX.
Chapter X.
Chapter XI.
Appendix: The State of Jury Research
Notes
Index