Summary of James Patterson & Benjamin Wallace's The Defense Lawyer

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

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#1 In 1984, four Black teenage boys were sitting in a subway car in Manhattan, talking and laughing loudly. They were the only people in the north end of the car. The other passengers kept their distance from what was happening at the end of the car.

#2 Barry Slotnick, who was a criminal defense lawyer, took a vacation to the Caribbean with his family. He was always tanning, and he loved how his family spent time together. He eventually suggested that his wife, Donna, try something different with her law career.

#3 When the subway conductor, Armando Soler, went to check on the passengers, he found four Black teenagers who had been shot. The white man on the bench had said they’d tried to rob him.

#4 The shooting generated a flood of calls to the newsroom, and the police anti-vigilante task force was formed. They were looking for Bernhard Goetz, who was suspected of being the shooter. But the witnesses said he wasn’t the man they’d seen shoot the four kids.

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