Gangland : the lawyers / James Morton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morton, James.

Contributor:

Lipman Criminology Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lawyers.

Organized crime.

Judicial corruption.

Physical Description:

viii, 344 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Gangland lawyers

Place of Publication:

London : Virgin, 2001.

Summary:

Here is a wide-ranging, penetrating investigation and history into the cases, the gangsters, and the lawyers whose actions are not always in the interest of 'justice'.

Gangland figures cannot function without their lawyers -- the mouthpieces -- who speak for them in court, obtain bail, throw doubt on the evidence and, if all that fails, try to obtain a reduced sentence. Although many lawyers are honest, the preferred type of lawyer for Gangland figures is often dishonest. Someone who will act as a go-between with the police, provide false alibis, bribe and intimidate witnesses, jurors and judges and, from time to time, finance and set up robberies and burglaries. Occasionally these lawyers may even kill on their own or their clients behalf, or may be killed themselves.-- Includes mob lawyers: Frank Ragan, the Florida lawyer who acted for three mob leaders suspected of involvement in the killing of John F Kennedy-- Also includes Judge Joseph Peel, who had his co-judge killed

Notes:

Bibliography: pages 332-336.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.

ISBN:

1852279419

OCLC:

46602777