Title: Right to counsel
First published: 2008
Description: The Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees the assistance of counsel for one’s defense in a criminal trial, no matter what crime one is being accused of. What happens when the defense attorney finds the subject matter of the case ethically repugnant? Right to Counsel takes you through one young lawyer’s moral struggle when he was called upon to help overturn the conviction of Michael Dee Mattson, a 28-year-old death row inmate, convicted of the kidnapping, rape and murder of six girls between the ages of 9 and 22.
Subjects: Biography, Biography & Autobiography, Capital punishment, Death row, Lawyers, Nonfiction, Public defenders, Serial murderers, Trial, litigation, Trials (Murder), True Crime
Places: California, Marin county, United States
People: James William Potts, Michael Dee Mattson
LC classification: KF373.A3 P68 2008