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How Can You Defend Those People?

Name: How Can You Defend Those People?
Author: Mickey Sherman
ISBN: 9781599215785

by Mickey Sherman

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Overview

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.

Synopsis

In the tradition of true crime bestsellers by Alan Dershowitz and Dominick Dunne, Mickey Sherman delivers a powerful and extraordinarily candid account of his legal career that gives the readers an all-access backstage pass to not only the sausage factory that is the criminal justice system but the “big cases” we have all lived with on TV. Sherman started his career as a public defender, then 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). Sherman’s work has been groundbreaking and sometimes controversial: 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. When, after a mistrial due to a hung jury in a rape trial, Sherman hired one of the jurors to be his consultant in the retrial of the client, the New York Times declared he had “undercut the entire jury system.” A law was soon passed in Connecticut making Sherman’s move a misdemeanor. This is both 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.

About the Author, Mickey Sherman

Criminal defense attorney Mickey Sherman appears weekly on the CBS Early Show as its legal analyst, and is also commentator for numerous other networks several times a week, including Fox News, MSNBC, and Court TV. He is a frequent guest on Nancy Grace, The Glenn Beck Program, and CNN Headline News, among many others. He has appeared on 48 Hours, 20/20, Dateline, Larry King Live, The Today Show, Neil Caputo, Paula Zahn, Fox and Friends, Hannity and Colmes, Leeza, The View and many, many others. He has guest-hosted The Abrahms Report, Inside the Law, various Court TV shows, and others. He also appears as a character ("Mickey Sherman, Criminal Defense Lawyer") in the most recently published novels by James Patterson, including Fourth of July and The Sixth Target.