Catherine Jean Crier (born November 6, 1954) is an American journalist and author of A Deadly Game and The Case Against Lawyers. She was the youngest elected state judge in Texas history at age thirty and served as a Texas State District Judge for the 162nd District Court.Crier is currentl...
aJohn Peter Zenger was a newspaper editor. He waged and won an important battle for freedom of the press in America. He criticized the policies of the British governor. He was charged with criminal libel as a result. Zenger’s lawyers were disbarred by the governor. Andrew Hamilton defended...
Book Summary:#1NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLERThey are at the center of a multimillion-dollar legal hurricane: twelve men and women who have been investigated, watched, manipulated, and harassed by high-priced lawyers and consultants who will stop at nothing to secure a verdict. Now the jury must make...
I was asked by a Cozy Mystery site reader if I could put up a Lawyers in Mystery Books theme. Here are themystery book series (that can be found on the Cozy Mystery site) which feature lawyers as their main sleuths: Jeff Abbott: Whit Mosley Mystery Series Susan Wittig Albert: China Ba...
It did the last in 2011, when its lawyers successfully argued to the Supreme Court that a California law criminalizing the sale of violent video games to minors—something not on the books for violent movies, music or other entertainment—violated the First Amendment. Since Monday, we’ve ...