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7 Solo [i] (1999-2000)

handle is hein.journals/sololoi7 and id is 1 raw text is: THE NATIONAL JUDICIAL COLLEGE -_.10V 2 U LAW Trial Tips: Tru onfsse + ________ofaras Taleon+ Byjj~i~~frrjrose I am a true crime addict, unrepentantly so, and it's all Truman Capote's fault for writing novel In Cold Blood back in 1965, about a Kansas farm family's murder by two ex-cons. Before long, Anatomy ofa Murder, a criminal defense lawyer's true Bn~k~ n iial Lawc rs T -ia Pratc . & Cir , er V~ T! ti story of a bartender's 1951 murder in Big Bay, Michigan, came into my hands, and I was on my way to ruin, descent ad Helter Skelter. Filthy trash, snorted my high school English teacher. My explanation that true crime was the per- fect education for a would- be lawyer fell upon deaf ears. Little did she realize, I'm sure, that In Cold Blood would be hailed as a literary triumph in years to come or that Robert Traver was the pen name of a future Michigan State SSupreme Court Justice. -Never once in two , %,decades of trial prac- tice have I ever put Milton's lessons to work, but I have put some of the tricks learned in true crime stories to good use. True crime stories date all the way back to Cain and Abel, predating Court TV and the national fasci- nation with O.1 Simpson, the Menendez brothers, and JonBenet Ramsey. What Capote made liter- ary, Dominick Dunne made classy in his monthly Vanity Fair reportage of crimes of the rich and famous. The usual triumph of good over evil in these modern morality tales bodes even more for prac- ticing lawyers. Packaged

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