From the Book - First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Please don't come : on what happens when a black woman must aid in a deportation arrest
Wanna see something funny? : on being trained by a white colleague how to interrogate a black defendant
I want no part of this : on the older black woman victim who pleads for lenience for a young black defendant
She needed me to believe her : on the domestic assault victim afraid to be judged
That's not me : on the real case of mistaken identity
A seat at the (right) table : on the tension between black public defenders and prosecutors
Babyface : on the conviction of a baby-faced defendant who acts against his self-interest
There's still time : on prosecuting a mother for child abuse while faced with the prospect of losing my own
Not their son, too : on watching the victim's family beg not to have their son's murderer go to prison
No one who had been raped would have ever : on watching a judge shame a teenage sexual assault victim based on her courtroom attire
She's always been such a good girl : on cross-examining a naive and helpless mother trying to defend her daughter on trial
Grandstanding for justice
The chew : on the role of privilege in charging decisions
I just don't believe in it : on the tension between illegal and wrong
Chess pie : on a prosecutor embraced outside of the courtroom
It didn't have to happen to me : on the haunting effect of secondary trauma
