TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dwyer,Johnny
TI  - The Districts: stories of American justice from the Federal Courts 
SN  - 9781101946541
AV  - KF 8755 D993d 2019
U1  - 347.73 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New York
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf
KW  - United States
KW  - District Court (New York : Eastern District)
KW  - District Court (New York : Southern District)
KW  - District courts
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - Criminal justice, Administration of
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Law Enforcement
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - LAW / Criminal Law / General
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / Judicial Branch
KW  - Federal district courts
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-350); Downthehole -- Cooperation -- Lufthansa -- Retribution -- The border -- Trial tax -- Collateral consequences -- Override -- Market justice -- No victories -- Questions of Innocence -- Hijra -- 702 -- Shkin -- Hijra II -- DJ3 -- Hijra III -- Juror #27 -- Post-Tammany -- Reversals
N2  - "An unprecedented plunge into New York City's federal court system that gives us a revelatory picture of how our justice system, and the pursuit of justice, really works.  A young Italian Mafioso helps get rid of a body in Queens. In Manhattan, a hedge fund portfolio manager misrepresents his company's assets to investors. At JFK International Airport, a college student returns from Jamaica with cocaine stuffed in the handle of her suitcase. These are just a few of the stories that come to life in this comprehensive look at the Southern District Court in Manhattan, and the Eastern District Court in Brooklyn--the two federal courts tasked with maintaining order in New York City. Johnny Dwyer takes us not just into the courtrooms but into the lives of those who enter through its doors: the judges and attorneys, prosecutors and defendants, winners and losers. He examines crimes we've read about in the papers or seen in movies and television--organized crime, terrorism, drug trafficking, corruption, and white-collar crime--and weaves in the nuances that rarely make it into headlines. Brimming with detail and drama, The Districts illuminates the meaning of intent, of reasonable doubt, of deception, and--perhaps most importantly of all--of justice"--
ER  -