angelmom
The love stays...forever in our hearts
I downloaded the book, partly because it was free and partly b/c I'm interested and partly because I resolved to read a book a week in 2011. :crazy:
I have to say, it's a pretty good read so far. I don't know how much of it I'd take as "true" but I think any crime junkie like me would enjoy it.
She (or her ghostwriter?) is a good writer; the stories are interesting and emotionally compelling. I care what happens to her clients.
Of course, the stories are about the innocent or the ones who no one would think should get the DP. There's nothing terribly adversarial or argumentative here.
Even in the case where they knew an innocent man was in prison, first it wasn't her client. I'm not sure she actually knew enough to do anything about it. Second, she talks about how horrible it was for those lawyers to know that and to look for legal ways to reveal that info and not be able to find it. They would have had to give up their careers and all the other people they might help to save that man. While I don't know if I could do that, the problem is with the law, not the lawyers in that case. Personally I think it should fit the exception - the argument could be made that by keeping the secret the innocent man's life was in danger. Of course, the law wouldn't agree with me, but I think it's wrong.
Anyway, all that to say you might want to check it out, especially at this great price!
Reading it also makes me wonder why she bowed out of Casey's case. Was it for fear of ruining her perfect record? Was Casey the wrong kind of client? (IOW, not poor, a minority, uneducated, abused, or alone in the world.) Did AL go into it thinking that she could get Casey to admit what she had done and fight the DP on some grounds but Casey and/or Baez wouldn't go for it?
I don't know. I'm having a hard time putting it down, though.
I have to say, it's a pretty good read so far. I don't know how much of it I'd take as "true" but I think any crime junkie like me would enjoy it.
She (or her ghostwriter?) is a good writer; the stories are interesting and emotionally compelling. I care what happens to her clients.
Of course, the stories are about the innocent or the ones who no one would think should get the DP. There's nothing terribly adversarial or argumentative here.
Even in the case where they knew an innocent man was in prison, first it wasn't her client. I'm not sure she actually knew enough to do anything about it. Second, she talks about how horrible it was for those lawyers to know that and to look for legal ways to reveal that info and not be able to find it. They would have had to give up their careers and all the other people they might help to save that man. While I don't know if I could do that, the problem is with the law, not the lawyers in that case. Personally I think it should fit the exception - the argument could be made that by keeping the secret the innocent man's life was in danger. Of course, the law wouldn't agree with me, but I think it's wrong.
Anyway, all that to say you might want to check it out, especially at this great price!
Reading it also makes me wonder why she bowed out of Casey's case. Was it for fear of ruining her perfect record? Was Casey the wrong kind of client? (IOW, not poor, a minority, uneducated, abused, or alone in the world.) Did AL go into it thinking that she could get Casey to admit what she had done and fight the DP on some grounds but Casey and/or Baez wouldn't go for it?
I don't know. I'm having a hard time putting it down, though.
