Confessions of a Criminal Lawyer: A Memoir

A successful former defense attorney exposes the raw truth about the courtroom "game" and a career spent defending the guilty

As an advocate for the accused in Newark, New Jersey, criminal lawyer Seymour Wishman defended a vast array of clients, from burglars and thieves to rapists and murderers. Many of them were poor and undereducated, and nearly all of them were guilty. But it was not Wishman's duty to pass moral judgment on those he represented. His job was to convince a jury to set...