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Renegade for Justice - Defending the Defenseless in an Outlaw World (Paperback)
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Renegade for Justice - Defending the Defenseless in an Outlaw World (Paperback)
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"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 you-you 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
powerful-to visualize the alternative, a career that's built on
cases and causes that further the public interest, human rights,
and care of the natural world.
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