Judicial Indiscretion

by Michael Arkin

Overview

The Santa Fe Trail sets the scene for drug running, money laundering, treachery, murder, and challenges to character, as Judicial Indiscretion plays out in the cactus-studded New Mexican Rio Grande Valley landscape.
A highly respected judge is murdered in Mimbres County, New Mexico and local attorney David Madrid is arrested for the crime. San Diego Times investigative reporter Linda Lawson prevails upon long time friend Matt Lucas to assist in the defense of David, her brother.
In this second of the Matt Lucas series, take the ride of your life through the underworld of crime, deception, and injustice.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940157746735
Publisher:	JB Stillwater Publishing Company
Publication date:	03/17/2016
Series:	Matt Lucas , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	328
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Michael Arkin is an active member of the State Bar of California who also practices in New Mexico with a limited license to practice law issued by the Supreme Court of New Mexico. He is a former Small Claims Court Judge Pro Tem in Calaveras County, California and a former Independent State Hearing Officer who heard and determined contested due process cases between school districts and parents as a member of the Special Education Hearing Office in Sacramento, California. As an ISHO, his written Decisions were published in national legal journals.
He presently serves as a member of the Mediation Panel of the San Diego (California) Superior Court and is available to mediate matters referred to him in San Diego County on demand. He has also conducted mediations for Consortium for Children in Santa Rosa, California.
In addition, he assists Pegasus Legal Services for Children in Albuquerque, New Mexico as counsel in kinship guardianship cases as well as by serving as a Guardian ad Litem (Attorney for the Child) in child abuse and neglect cases filed in the 7th Judicial District in New Mexico.
A former United States Department of Justice trial attorney in Washington, D.C., he has been engaged in the practice of law since 1965. Until 1983, he practiced tax, corporate and commercial law and served as managing partner of two San Diego (California) law firms. After 1983 his law practice included service as Chief Trial Counsel of Calaveras County (California) Child Protective Services, as appointed special counsel for children in high conflict child custody cases for the California Superior Court, and as counsel for battered women for the Women's Crisis (Shelter) Center in the California County in which he resided. In 2002 he was appointed to a Hearing Officer II position at the California Special Education Hearing Office where he remained until December 2005. After a brief retirement during which he completed two novels, he resumed work for children and families in New Mexico and reopened an office in San Diego.
Reared in Arlington, Virginia and a graduate of Wakefield High School, he received undergraduate degrees from The George Washington University and The University of Oklahoma with a major in psychology, and minors in sociology, philosophy and English. While at GWU he volunteered at the campaign headquarters of then US Senator Jack Kennedy in 1960.