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Right to Counsel: A Lawyer's Struggle to Defend a Serial Killer | 
 enlarge | Author: James William Potts
Publisher: Sphinx Publishing
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 590845
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.9 x 0.6
ISBN: 1572486694
Dewey Decimal Number: 345.73056
EAN: 9781572486690
ASIN: 1572486694
Publication Date: July 1, 2008
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"Potts has captured the personal conflicts and shared commitment to the rule of law in a precedent-setting trial of a stone cold serial killer, revealing many insightful details I never knew existed. And it was my case!"
- Pat Dingle, Homicide Detective,
Ret. North Las Vegas Police Department In the late 1970s, a crime wave swept California. Several young girls were kidnapped, brutally raped, and murdered. Michael Dee Mattson, a drug addict with severe emotional problems, was convicted of these crimes and sentenced to be executed in California's gas chamber. James Potts, an aspiring young attorney still coming to terms with the rape of his own younger sister, is asked to find a way to get Mattson's conviction overturned. After making a discovery that could potentially set Mattson free to rape and kill again, Potts struggles with his own moral dilemma: Use this information to free Mattson or let him languish on death row.
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Incredible Story Put in Layman's Terms September 1, 2008
I loved this book. In his easy-to-read style, Mr. Potts brings to focus one of the most perplexing questions people have with today's attorneys: How can a lawyer's conscious allow him or her to defend a known and confessed murderer? Potts discovers evidence that could put a deranged psychopath back on the streets certainly to repeat his heinous crime, and Potts asks himself what he should do with this evidence?
In this book, Potts takes you through his full range of inner conflict. He discusses his upbringing in a wholesome family and his crowing achievement of reaching Eagle Scout as a tribute to his strong morals and dedication to always do what's right. He discusses his struggle with his own conscious, himself having a younger sister who was the victim of rape.
He discusses his struggle with his pregnant wife who could not fathom how he could possibly consider defending a man he knew had kidnapped, raped, sodomized and murdered several little girls, as they prepared to bring into the world a child. And he discusses how he found the strength to face his own ethics and overlay it against the U.S. Constitution's guarantee of rights afforded to any person who is brought before a court of law.
Mr. Potts provides insight into a lawyer's conscience like no other book I have read. This book is an eye-opening piece of work.
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