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How Can You Defend Those People?
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by Mickey Sherman
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 240 pages
Published by: The Lyons Press April 1, 2008
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1599213737
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1599213736
Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 5.9 x 1.1 inches
Weighs: 1.1 pounds
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CBS-TV legal analyst and criminal defense attorney Mickey Sherman presents his controversial winning arguments and courtroom experiences together with his unique views and comments about our criminal justice system. In the tradition of best sellers by Alan Dershowitz and Dominick Dunne, Sherman delivers a powerful, extraordinarily candid, and humorous account of his legal career that gives readers an ALL ACCESS BACKSTAGE PASS to the sausage factory that is the criminal justice system, as well as many cases we have all lived with on TV about which Sherman has provided commentary and insight on the various news channels. Sherman pulls no punches in his candid and often irreverent account of his experiences, observations and antics on and off the air, covering the big (and not so big) cases for the networks. Sherman started his career as a public defender, then worked as a prosecutor, and later became a criminal defense attorney for clients such as Michael Skakel (convicted 27 years after the fact for the murder of Martha Moxley) and Alex Kelly (who, on the eve of his double-rape trial in Darien, fled to Europe for nine years). The raw Court TV coverage of his successful PTSD defense of a Vietnam veteran charged with murdering an unarmed man over a parking space argument was nominated for a Cable Ace Award. Sherman’s defense strategies are frequently groundbreaking and sometimes more fascinating than the clients themselves, which is why he is a frequent source for NBC’s Dateline and Law & Order, CBS’s 48 Hours, Court TV, all the national news channels, the New York Times, Time, and Vanity Fair. He is even a recurring character in James Patterson’s bestselling novels. How Can You Defend Those People? is an entertaining account of how a successful attorney deals with impossible cases and clients and boldly challenges accepted laws and conventional tactics, as well as a voyeuristic glimpse into the real lives and travails of clients who represent a fascinating cross section of life.
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Praise for Mickey Sherman’s How Can Your Defend Those People? “I’m not popular with defense attorneys, especially in matters of murder. I’m one of those people who actually says to them, ‘How can you defend such a vile person?’, or a variation on that theme. Legally, on most of his cases, I’ll never agree with Mickey Sherman, but I must admit I really enjoyed his book. Underneath his sometimes fierce demeanor in the courtroom, Sherman is a witty man with an amiable personality, an expert story teller, and a lover of the law who fights hard for his clients.”
—Dominick Dunne, bestselling author “If Mark Twain came back from the dead and decided to be a lawyer in Greenwich, CT, this might give you an idea of the tone of Mickey Sherman’s humorous, human, first-hand observations as he journeys through the black hole that we call our legal system.”
—Barry Levinson, Academy Award-winning director, screenwriter, and producer of Rain Man; Good Morning, Vietnam; Diner; Bugsy;
Wag the Dog; and …And Justice for All “While defense attorneys are usually my natural enemy, understanding their thinking and ‘getting into their heads’ is an offer I can’t refuse! And in this book, we get insight from one of the best, Mickey Sherman.”
—Nancy Grace, legal analyst and Headline News anchor “This is the real Mickey Sherman, speaking in his own voice—irreverent, incorrigible and just plain hilarious. He has seen and done it all in the world of criminal justice and television legal analysis. No one is safe from his keen observation and knife-sharp recollection. These are true stories, with serious underpinnings, that will have you roaring with laughter at the absurdity of it all. It’s a great read!”
—William J. Bratton, Los Angeles Chief of Police Sherman is the high-profile, colorful, and iconoclastic criminal defense attorney who grew up underprivileged on the mean streets of Greenwich, Connecticut (OK, he readily admits there are NO mean streets in Greenwich, but compared to his friends, he was “poor”) and went on to fame and success in the courtroom first as a public defender, then as a prosecutor, and later as a defense lawyer. The same qualities that have made Sherman so wildly successful before the bar and as a ubiquitous television commentator are on display in this account of why he wouldn’t trade his job for any other in the world and why it is that defense attorneys do what they do – defend the thoroughly guilty, the somewhat-guilty, and the innocent with the same passion and vigor. How Can You Defend Those People? is part memoir and part voyeuristic journey through the American criminal justice system; along the way the reader meets many of Mickey’s celebrity clients and is treated to inside accounts of their cases. Sherman’s winning style, self-deprecating humor, and his easy manner make it an eminently readable and enjoyable book.
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