Description
Book SynopsisOffers the memoir of a public interest lawyer driven by the cause of justice. While the stories Stephen Saltonstall tells are entertaining, they are also instructive, providing, as he says, ‘an insider look at the American justice system, which is rigged against the poor and people of color and tolerates police perjury.’
Table of Contents
- Foreword by Michael Meltsner
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Prelude: Suicide Notes and Golden Hits on the Way to the Bar
- 2. The Outlaw Road and its Challenges
- 3. My First Case: Representing a Serial Killer
- 4. Representing a Cop-Killer
- 5. The Chad Green Case: Medicine Versus Quackery
- 6. Fighting to End the Death Penalty in Massachusetts
- 7. Vermont Law Practice
- 8. The Cowboy Snodgrass Case
- 9. My Most Troubling Walk-in Cases: The Cleaning Lady and the Doctor and the Gun on My Desk
- 10. Continuing with Public Defense
- 11. Homicides by Auto
- 12. Representing the World Person in Vermont
- 13. Getting Rid of a Bad Judge
- 14. Operation Rescue Accuses Me of Attempted Murder
- 15. Combatting the War on Drugs
- 16. Defending Nature
- 17. The Lamb Brook Aftermath
- 18. Political Cases
- 19. A Precedent-Setting Case for Student Freedom of Speech
- 20. Foiling a Frame-up
- 21. From Lawyer to Water Truck Driver
- List of Cases
- Coda and Notes on Sources
- Index
