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10 Bimonthly Rev. L. Books 1 (1999)

handle is hein.journals/bimrvlab10 and id is 1 raw text is: Bimonthly of Law Review B o o k s http://www.suffolk.edullaw/faculty/ebander/ind-I 8.html Volume 10 Number 1 January-February 1999 FICTION Blind Judgment Grif Stockley. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. 297 p. 0 684 81564 8. $21.50 Reviewed by Andrew J. McClurg, professor, University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law In his fifth Gideon Page novel, Grif Stockley once again shows he's a cut above - way above - the ordinary courtroom crime drama writer. Blind Judgment finds Page, Stockley's pathetically flawed antihero, going home to Mississippi Delta region of Arkansas where he grew up to defend Doss Bledsoe, a black man accused of killing his Asian employer at a meat- packing plant. Gideon is no silk-stocking lawyer. If he has socks at all, you can bet they don't match. He epitomizes Stockley's greatest writing gift: creating unforgettable characters who are the real deal, at once lovable and contemptible in their IN THIS ISSUE: Fiction........................ Taxation....................... An interview (Legal Analysis).. Lawyers & Ethics............ Politics & Philosophy .......... Books Received................. Books Reviewed................. Authors of Books Reviewed ...... Nota Bander.................... humaneness. When Gideon isn't obsessing about sex, he's worrying about how many times a day he has to urinate. Borrowing from a warehouse of people- experience stockpiled during his twenty-five years as a Legal Services attorney representing indigent clients, Stockley's books are densely populated by hilarious, quirky characters. Gideon's overweight office-mate, Dan, is a convicted Twinkie-shoplifter who left his wife for a prostitute. His insolent receptionist, guaran- teed life tenure because her uncle owns the building, never misses an opportunity to remind her bosses they're losers. None of Stockley's characters is destined for sainthood, certainly not Gideon. The case back home, appears to be a guaranteed loser for the always struggling lawyer, but he takes it on anyway to settle the score with the man who helped destroy his family decades earlier. Back in Bear Creek (in reality Marianna, 10 3 6 7 13 O 13 F1 15 15 16 E Bimonthly Review of Law Books / January-February 1999 1 NEXT ISSUE: CYBERSPACE BOOKS REVIEWED BY PROFESSOR RUSTAD and more Watch for our title, subtitle, selected topic index to volumes 1 to 9 on my WEB PAGE

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