Defending Mohammad: Justice on Trial: a Defense Lawyer's Account of the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing Trial - Hardcover

Precht, Robert E.

 
9780801441554: Defending Mohammad: Justice on Trial: a Defense Lawyer's Account of the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing Trial
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0801441552 ISBN 13: 9780801441554
Verlag: Cornell University Press, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

This is the inside story of an epic courtroom showdown between terrorism and the American legal system. On a snowy day in February 1993, a massive car bomb nearly toppled the World Trade Center. Four Middle Eastern men were quickly arrested and charged with the crime. At the time, Robert E. Precht was a staff attorney for the Legal Aid Society Federal Defender Division in Manhattan, handling routine cases as a public defender. He was surprised to be appointed defence attorney to the chief suspect, Mohammad Salameh, and challenged as never before by the media circus that this major terrorism trial would prove to be. The events and personalities of the trial alone would make for gripping reading, but equally compelling are Precht's observations on the forces arrayed against fair trials for accused terrorists.

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Críticas

"Extraordinarily self-aware and perceptive. Robert E. Precht has written a highly readable, important book. By critically reexamining his own motivations and judgments as well as those of the judge and the other lawyers, Precht shows us how much our criminal justice system depends on the integrity and talents of imperfect, sympathetic human beings."

Reseña del editor

This is the inside story of an epic courtroom showdown between terrorism and the American legal system. On a snowy day in February 1993, a massive car bomb nearly toppled the World Trade Center. Four Middle Eastern men were quickly arrested and charged with the crime. At the time, Robert E. Precht was a staff attorney for the Legal Aid Society Federal Defender Division in Manhattan, handling routine cases as a public defender. He was surprised to be appointed defence attorney to the chief suspect, Mohammad Salameh, and challenged as never before by the media circus that this major terrorism trial would prove to be. The events and personalities of the trial alone would make for gripping reading, but equally compelling are Precht's observations on the forces arrayed against fair trials for accused terrorists.

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Verlag
Cornell University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0801441552
ISBN 13 
9780801441554
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
183
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