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Boston D. A.: The Battle To Transform the American Justice System
Boston D A The Battle To Transform the American Justice System Author:Sean Flynn In BOSTON D.A.: THE BATTLE TO TRANSFORM THE AMERICAN JUSTICE SYSTEM (TV Books; November 2000), award-winning journalist Sean Flynn takes readers behind the closed doors of the Boston D.A.s office to reveal the life-and-death world of crime and punishment. Crack gangs, homicides, the Willie Horton scandal, and racially motivated witch-hun... more »ts plagued Boston in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Then in 1992, an unlikely political novice named Ralph Martin II became District Attorney. BOSTON D.A.: THE BATTLE TO TRANSFORM THE AMERICAN JUSTICE SYSTEM tells the remarkable story of this reformer who has used the Boston courts to challenge racial bias, fight for progressive social outreach programs, and crack down on juvenile crime.« less