Now Into Court

Number of Pages 230
Type Kindle Edition
You hear lots of talk from politicians, businessmen, and other people who know everything about what’s wrong with the legal system. You hear about the litigious society, activist judges, insane jury verdicts. You hear about tort reform and restoring mainstream values to the courts. You hear about corruption and psychotic cops and criminals who are getting away with murder.

You hear all of this, and yet you haven’t heard the half of it.

The story of Now Into Court centers on a slander suit brought by a vaguely criminal and totally repulsive right-wing radio talk show host. Represented by the plaintiff firm of Acropolis, Primavera & DiCicco, Jack S. Brayer, the radio guy, seeks to exact a perverse form of justice on defendant Emmet Dummet, a simple vegetarian butcher who dares speak truth to power, even if that power is incredibly fat. The story follows the course of Brayer’s suit, from its ridiculous cause of action to its absurd trial verdict. Along the way, sleazy lawyers, crooked judges, psychopathic investigators, accommodating psychologists—in other words, the usual suspects who are almost automatically involved in any evolving forensic fiasco—emerge from the slime to do their part to make the system, ahem, work.

After years observing firsthand how it doesn't work, the author yanks down the pants of the American so-called justice system and exposes it for the flaccid monstrosity that it is.You hear lots of talk from politicians, businessmen, and other people who know everything about what s wrong with the legal system. You hear about the litigious society, activist judges, insane jury verdicts. You hear about tort reform and restoring mainstream values to the courts. You hear about corruption and psychotic cops and criminals who are getting away with murder.

You hear all of this, and yet you haven t heard the half of it.

The story of Now Into Court centers on a slander suit brought by a vaguely criminal and totally repulsive right-wing radio talk show host. Represented by the plaintiff firm of Acropolis, Primavera & DiCicco, Jack S. Brayer, the radio guy, seeks to exact a perverse form of justice on defendant Emmet Dummet, a simple vegetarian butcher who dares speak truth to power, even if that power is incredibly fat. The story follows the course of Brayer s suit, from its ridiculous cause of action to its absurd trial verdict. Along the way, sleazy lawyers, crooked judges, psychopathic investigators, accommodating psychologists in other words, the usual suspects who are almost automatically involved in any evolving forensic fiasco emerge from the slime to do their part to make the system, ahem, work.

After years observing firsthand how it doesn't work, the author yanks down the pants of the American so-called justice system and exposes it for the flaccid monstrosity that it is.