Lies, Damned Lies, and Testimony isn't one of them. It's a magistrate book that's just plain fun. The author, John Jasper, answered an ad appearing somewhere in Virginia and asking for a magistrate. He got the job. As Jasper describes it, a magistrate's view of life and the legal system bears little semblance to theory as taught in civics courses.
Nothing works terribly well.
Textbook solutions don't fit. Humanity isn't particularly admirable. The law with its juries and august attorneys and high principles doesn't apply. His is a grittier world. Somehow from all of this Jasper has written a very funny book that Steinbeck or Damon Runyan would understand.