Renegade for Justice (eBook)

Defending the Defenseless in an Outlaw World

Michael Meltsner, Stephen Saltonstall (Autoren)

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2023
280 Seiten
University Press of Kansas (Verlag)
978-0-7006-3368-5 (ISBN)

Infos

This is a book of courtroom war stories, drawn from my forty years of experience as an obscure lawyer for the underdog and the downtrodden. So begins Renegade for Justice, a 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.Renegade for Justice begins by telling the story of how and why a privileged kid from Cambridge, Massachusetts, broke from family tradition and devoted his professional life to defending the defenseless in a justice system that is crippled by systemic injustice. Activist lawyer Stephen Saltonstall brings readers into the world of criminal defense by recounting narratives of his cases, including a successful attack on a Massachusetts death penalty statute, appeals of two notorious homicide cases (a serial murderer and a cop-killer), an effort to save the life of a little boy whose parents refused to give him the medical treatment he needed for acute lymphocytic leukemia, free speech cases for students and an environmentalist carpenter, litigation to save critical black bear and neotropical migratory songbird habitat from US Forest Service clear-cutting, and more. In a system biased against the public interest and the underprivileged, Saltonstall gives people a model for practicing values-based law.Channeling the spirit of radicals like William Kunstler, Saltonstall writes not only for activists who want to better understand our society, but also for those thinking about becoming a lawyer. As he writes in the preface, I hope my stories will challenge those of youyou know who you are, you who dream of soft landings in the glittering halls of boring, soul-free law firms doing the bidding of the uber-rich and powerfulto visualize the alternative, a career thats built on cases and causes that further the public interest, human rights, and care of the natural world."e;

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.1.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: bail system discriminates • Benjamin Spck • Cairo Illinois • courtroom war stories • crime of clearcutting • Criminal Defense Lawyer • death penalty law • death penalty litigation • defending abused children • defending murderers • defending the defenseless • Defending the Guilty • defending the innocent • discrimination against poor • draft resistance • eugene debs • fighting against clearcutting • fighting death penalty • fighting for justice • high bails minorities • Institutional Racism • John Lewis • law as career • lawyer for underdog • life of lawyer • outlaw world • perjury • pro bono lawyer • public interest law • racial profiling • renegade lawyer • street lawyer • student free speech • Undocumented Migrants • war against drugs • wild animal rights
• ISBN-10: 0-7006-3368-5 / 0700633685
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7006-3368-5 / 9780700633685