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The first book in Campbell's critically acclaimed trilogy saw him as the country's first law student to argue a case before his state supreme court. The second book witnessed him convict (and then free) an innocent man as a prosecutor in Washington, D.C. The current volume returns Campbell to the defense, tracks his transition to teaching in California, and culminates with his defending his wife and others in "California versus Drusilla Campbe...

Excerpt from Syllabus, 1902: Northwestern UniversityWalter DILL scott was born in Cooksville, Illinois, on May 1, 1869. He attended the public schools until 1887, when he entered the Illinois State Normal at Normal. In 1889-'9o Dr. Scott taught in the public schools at Leroy and Hudson, graduating from the State Normal in 1891. He then entered Northwestern University and in 1895 was graduated from the College of Liberal Arts with the degree of...

Excerpt from Syllabus, 1902: Northwestern UniversityWalter DILL scott was born in Cooksville, Illinois, on May 1, 1869. He attended the public schools until 1887, when he entered the Illinois State Normal at Normal. In 1889-'9o Dr. Scott taught in the public schools at Leroy and Hudson, graduating from the State Normal in 1891. He then entered Northwestern University and in 1895 was graduated from the College of Liberal Arts with the degree of...

Campbell opens to the public a level of lawyering seldom revealed in conventional media: the painstaking process by which attorneys build cases for clients, sometimes against hopeless odds, witness by witness, motion by motion, point by point, always alert for unplanned developments that can win or sink the case. (Legal Reference/Law Profession)

Campbell defines a freedom lawyer as one who has "steadfast determination to oppose injustice wherever it appears." His writing is clear, poetic, and humorous as he leads readers through the prosecutor's thinking.