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Tough Cases

By: Russell F. Canan - editor, Gregory E. Mize - editor, Frederick H. Weisberg - editor
Narrated by: Isabel Keating, Richard Ferrone
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“Tough Cases stands out as a genuine revelation.... Our most distinguished judges should follow the lead of this groundbreaking volume.” (Justin Driver, The Washington Post)

A rare and illuminating view of how judges decide dramatic legal cases - Law and Order from behind the bench - including the Elián González, Terri Schiavo, and Scooter Libby cases

Prosecutors and defense attorneys have it easy - all they have to do is to present the evidence and make arguments. It’s the judges who have the heavy lift: they are the ones who have to make the ultimate decisions, many of which have profound consequences on the lives of the people standing in front of them.

In Tough Cases, judges from different kinds of courts in different parts of the country write about the case that proved most difficult for them to decide. Some of these cases received international attention: the Elián González case in which Judge Jennifer Bailey had to decide whether to return a seven-year-old boy to his father in Cuba after his mother drowned trying to bring the child to the United States, or the Terri Schiavo case in which Judge George Greer had to decide whether to withdraw life support from a woman in a vegetative state over the wishes of her parents, or the Scooter Libby case about appropriate consequences for revealing the name of a CIA agent. Others are less well-known but equally fascinating: a judge on a Native American court trying to balance US law with tribal law, a young Korean-American former defense attorney struggling to adapt to her new responsibilities on the other side of the bench, and the difficult decisions faced by a judge tasked with assessing the mental health of a woman who has killed her own children.

Relatively few judges have publicly shared the thought processes behind their decision making. Tough Cases makes for fascinating listening for everyone from armchair attorneys and fans of Law and Order to those actively involved in the legal profession who want insight into the people judging their work.

©2018 Russell F. Canan, Gregory E. Mize, and Frederick H. Weisberg (P)2019 Audible, Inc.
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Puts being a judge in perspective

This is a great book for anyone curious about the demands and duties of a judge in the American judicial system. The stories were very interesting and grabbed my attention. Definitely recommend for someone who likes none-fiction legal books.

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