Objection!
Subtitle: how high-priced defense attorneys, celebrity defendants, and a 24/7 media have hijacked our criminal justice system
By: Nancy Grace with Diane Clehane.
Contributors: Clehane, Diane, 1960-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Hyperion
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9781401301804; 9781401308483
Subjects: Trials -- United States.; Defense (Criminal procedure) -- United States -- Popular works.; Lawyers -- United States -- Popular works.; Celebrities -- United States -- Popular works.
Genres: Popular works.
Description: Offers a critique of America's criminal justice system, providing insight into what goes on inside and outside the courtroom during such high-profile cases as Scott Peterson, Martha Stewart, Michael Jackson, and Kobe Bryant.
Table of contents: title: Defense attorneys and other wily characters I have known; title: We the jury; title: Jackpot justice; title: Blood money; title: Airbrushing the awful truth; title: The power of the state is a myth; title: Blame the victim; title: The celebrity factor; title: The death-penalty battle; title: This is real reality television; title: To my critics.