Defending the Damned
Subtitle: Inside Chicago's Cook County Public Defender's Office
Publisher: Atria
Published: April 3, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780743270939
Subjects: Penology; Criminal Justice Administration; Law; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Legal System; Criminal Law - General; Legal Profession; Law / Criminal Law; General; Cook County; Defense (Criminal procedure); Illinois; Trials (Murder)
Description: A member of Chicago's elite Murder Task Force unit describes the lives of its public defenders, many of whom juggle dozens of clients and death-row cases simultaneously, in an account that focuses on the trial of an accused cop killer.