Suicide notes and golden hits on the way to the Bar -- The outlaw road and its challenges -- My first case : representing a serial killer -- Representing a cop-killer -- The Chad Green case : medicine vs. quackery -- Fighting to end the death penalty in Massachusetts -- Vermont law practice -- The Cowboy Snodgrass case -- My most troubling walk-in cases : The cleaning lady and the doctor and the gun on my desk -- Continuing with public defense -- Homicides by auto -- Representing the worst person in Vermont -- Getting rid of a bad judge -- Operation rescue accuses me of attempted murder -- Combatting the war on drugs -- Defending nature -- The Lamb Brook aftermath -- Political cases -- A precedent-setting case for student freedom of speech -- Foiling a frame-up -- From lawyer to water-truck driver.
Summary:
"Renegade for Justice begins by telling the story of how and why a privileged kid from Cambridge, Massachusetts broke from family tradition and devoted his professional life to defending the defenseless in a justice system that is crippled by systemic injustice. Radical lawyer Stephen Saltonstall brings readers into the world of criminal defense by recounting narratives of his cases, including a successful attack on a Massachusetts death penalty statute, appeals of two notorious homicide cases (a serial murderer and a cop-killer), an effort to save the life of a little boy whose parents refused to give him the medical treatment he needed for acute lymphocytic leukemia, free speech cases for students and an environmentalist carpenter, litigation to save critical black bear and neotropical migratory songbird habitat from U.S. Forest Service clearcutting, and more. In a system biased against the public interest and the underprivileged, Saltonstall gives people a model for practicing values-based law"-- Provided by publisher.
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