Beyond Terror: A battered wife on trial for the alleged murder of her husband in Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Ralph Thornton is a semiretired, Michigan trial attorney for justice, whose thirty-eight years as a trial advocate has involved handling thousands of cases, both in the criminal and civil courtrooms, most of which resulted in favorable verdicts or settlements for his clients.  		  No issue was too complex for the conscientious lawyering of Ralph Thornton, nor was any case too challenging for this native of Michigan's Upper Peninsula.    Trained initially as an investigator and administrator of industrial security for United States government contracting companies, he was well equipped intellectually and motivationally for the study and practice of law, representing criminal clients in the toughest of cases.