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2 Bimonthly Rev. L. Books 1 (1991)

handle is hein.journals/bimrvlab2 and id is 1 raw text is: BIMONTHLY REVIEW OF LAW BOOKS Volume 2 Number 1 January-February 1991 AN INTERVIEW WITH GARY S. KATZMANN Editor's note: Mr. Katzmann teaches a course on the Government Lawyer at Harvard Law School. He is also Chief Legal Counsel at the U.S. Attorney's Office in Boston. This interview was prompted by his recent book Inside the Criminal Process. New York: W. W. Nor- ton, 1991. 452p. ISBN 0-393-95948-1 $24.95 cloth; ISBN 0-393-95949-X $14.95 paper. Q. Who is your audience for this book? A. Law students, college students, criminal justice programs, lawyers both in the defense and prosecu- tion bars-anybody who wants an inside view of the criminal process. Q. How did you come to write this book? A. This book grew out of a course on criminal justice and law enforcement I taught at Harvard Law School. I discovered that while many texts pre- sented a view of criminal justice through the doc- trinal lens of the judicial decision, there was no book I could assign to students which examined the journey of a case in terms of everyday concerns of institutions, policy, and strategy. Inside the Criminal Process seeks to do that. Q. What does your book cover? For instance, I found the inclusion of court forms, such as the grand jury subpoena, much more effective than simple narrative. A. It tries to explain the inner workings of the criminal process: investigative techniques (includ- ing undercover operations and the use of infor- mants), grand jury proceedings, the decision to prosecute, arraignment, pretrial release and pre- trial motions, trial (including jury selection, open- ing statements, evidence, closing arguments, ver- dict), sentencing, appeal, and imprisonment. The book includes many kinds of primary material, from raw FBI transcripts to trial testimony and government guidelines. I wanted to bring the proc- ess to life for the reader. Q. Why no subtitle? Why not a subtitle with Ab- scam in it? A. While the Abscam prosecution of Harrison Wil- liams is a thread running through it, the book extends well beyond Abscam to explain the criminal process. For example, it includes material on the Comprehensive Crime Control Act, the new federal sentencing guidelines, the Wedtech investigation, and the Iran-Contra situation. Q. What role should clinical legal education play in law school or can books like yours, and many that you have cited in your bibliography, serve the same purpose? A. We do need clinical legal education to give stu- dents a more informed view of how our system operates. My book can be used in clinical education courses, standard criminal procedure courses, crimi- nal law courses, judicial process courses, and legal process courses, as well as in political science and criminal justice programs. The thrust of the book is away from the standard appellate decision approach and toward what in fact happens in the process. For example, what is the relationship between prosecu- tors and investigators; when does government de- cide to prosecute a criminal case; and what legal and bureaucratic forces do defendants and attorneys face before, during, and - ter trial? Q. What books do you recommend to students in law school? For instance, in terms of criminal law, I cannot think of one book I would recommend that law students read unless it is the recent reissue of Rovere's Howe and Hummel. (continued on next page) Bimonthly Review of Law Books / January-February 1991

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