How Can You Represent Those People?

How Can You Represent Those People? is the first-ever collection of essays offering a response to the 'Cocktail Party Question' asked of every criminal lawyer. A must-read for anyone interested in race, poverty, crime, punishment, and what makes lawyers tick.

Preface 1. 'Defending the Guilty' after 30 Years; Barbara Babcock 2. How Can You Prosecute Those People?; Paul Butler 3. How Can You Defend Those People?; Tucker Carrington 4. There but for the Grace of God Go I; Angela J. Davis 5. Why I Defend the Guilty and Innocent Alike; Alan M. Dershowitz 6. Why It's Essential to Represent 'Those People; Monroe H. Freedman 7. Defending Civil Rights; Vida B. Johnson 8. Ruminations on Us and Them; Joseph Margulies 9. Wrecking Life: When the State Seeks to Kill; William R. Montross, Jr. and Meghan Shapiro 10. 'Those People' Are Us; Ann Roan 11. Representing Sex Offenders; David A. Singleton 12. How Can You Not Defend Those People?; Abbe Smith 13. Fair Play; Robin Steinberg 14. Defending . . . Still; Michael E. Tigar 15. Not Only in America: The Necessity of Representing 'Those People' in a Free and Democratic Society; Alice Woolley