Defending Mohammad
Subtitle: Justice on Trial
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: August 28, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780801441554
Subjects: Biography: general; Laws of Other Jurisdictions & General Law; Terrorism, freedom fighters, armed struggle; Political Freedom & Security - Terrorism; Legal Reference / Law Profession; World Trade Center bombing, New York, N.Y., 1993; Law; USA; Salameh, Mohammad; Government - Federal; Legal History; New York; New York (State); Trials (Terrorism); Trials, litigation, etc
First sentence: On Friday, February 26, 1993, around six o'clock in the evening, I was late for my piano lesson.
Description: "This is the inside story of an epic courtroom showdown between terrorism and the American legal system. On a snowy day in February 1993, a massive car bomb nearly toppled the World Trade Center. Four Middle Eastern men were quickly arrested and charged with the crime. At the time, Robert E. Precht was a staff attorney for the Legal Aid Society Federal Defender Division in Manhattan, handling routine cases as a public defender. He was surprised to be appointed defense attorney to the chief suspect, Mohammad Salameh, and challenged as never before by the media circus that this major terrorism trial would prove to be. The events and personalities of the trial make for gripping reading, and equally compelling are Precht's observations on the forces arrayed against fair trials for accused terrorists."--Jacket.