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Criminal

Aug. 11, 2009

A Shock to the System

Former deputy DA Walt Lewis explains how his worldview was turned upside down by the criminal justice system in his book "The Criminal Justice Club."

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By Walt Lewis

This is a story I was waiting for someone else to write. It is a story about the criminal justice system from the perspective of a career prosecutor. It is a story that needs to be told because the media does a poor job of giving the public accurate information about how the system works; and for most people, the media is the only source of knowledge about the criminal justice system. This book reveals how the system rea...

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