Felony Review: Tales of True Crime and Corruption in Chicago

Ever wonder what it’s really like to be a criminal prosecutor in a city like Chicago? Felony Review is a vivid, behind-the-scenes account of the years Randy Barnett spent as a young prosecutor in the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office during the late 1970s and early 1980s—an era of violent crime and widespread corruption in the criminal courts of Chicago.

With firsthand immediacy and sharp insight, Barnett recounts the murder investigations, grisly police station confessions, courtroom ta...