Challenging Cases

<b>Following on the success of <em>Tough Cases</em>, called “A law buff’s dream” by headbutler.com, this companion volume collects judges’ firsthand stories of deciding cases when the world is watching</b><BR><BR><p>Most cases that judges decide garner little public attention. But occasionally, a case is tried both in the courtroom and in the court of public opinion. In <em>Challenging Cases</em>, some of the country’s leading jurists talk about the most difficult cases they’ve handled—ones where the eyes of the world were upon them.</p><p>Whether the defendant was a beloved major league baseball player, a movie star, or a well-known sex-offender, or whether the topic addressed an especially contentious aspect of the culture wars, these cases played out before millions of on-lookers, adding a whole new dimension to what is already a Solomonic responsibility.</p><p>In their previous book, <em>Tough Cases</em>, called “an unprecedented view from the bench” by legal commentator Greta van Susteren, and “a genuine revelation” by Justin Driver in <em>The Washington Post</em>, Judges Canan, Mize, and Weisberg made us privy to the thought processes of judges making some of their hardest legal decisions. In <em>Challenging Cases</em>, over a dozen judges from courts in DC, Texas, Seattle, Michigan, Maine, Buffalo, Virginia, and more speak to the added challenge of trials involving high-profile defendants. Cases include:</p><ul><li>the perjury trial of Roger Clemens<li>the sentencing of January 6th rioters<li>the case of Dr. Larry Nassar, accused of the sexual abuse of hundreds of female athletes<li>the Kosovo international war crimes trial<li>the Johnny Depp trial</ul> <p>Providing the fodder for a whole new season of <em>Law and Order</em>, <em>Challenging Cases</em> is for every actual and armchair legal beagle in the country.</p>