Fighting for Your Life: The African-American Criminal Justice Survival Guide - Softcover

John V. Elmore Esq.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0972751939 ISBN 13: 9780972751933

Publisher: Amber Books, 2004

Synopsis

A “survival guide” to the criminal justice system for African Americans, this book teaches how to choose the best attorney, what to do if arrested, how to project the appearance and conduct in court that will result in the best possible outcome, and everything else needed to know about bail, juries, and jail.

About this title

From the Publisher:

"THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOK FOR AFRICAN-AMERICANS WRITTEN IN THE LAST THIRTY YEARS!"

- Tony Rose, Publisher, Amber Books

From the Author:

As a Defense Attorney, I spend a lot of time counseling young African-American men and women about making better lives for themselves and avoiding lives of crime. Many that I have spoken to are doing very well in life; one of my former clients is now a law school graduate and practicing criminal defense attorney. However, some of the young people have engaged in progressively worse behavior and are now either serving long prison terms or dead. This has been very disheartening. I have also witnessed many young black men and women, who have been wrongfully accused and convicted of crimes because they did not understand the system and lacked the tools to survive it. It hurts me to see so many of our young African-American men going to jail instead of college. Many go to jail, having been wrongfully convicted of crimes that they did not commit. Others will go to jail because of a lack of economic opportunities; and others go to jail simply because they did not have someone to show them a better way. I hope this book will serve as a tool to wake up and fight to save the lives of the next generation of African-American young people, so that they will avoid the criminal justice system. I hope it will educate you and your loved ones about the system and help you make intelligent decisions about the way you conduct your lives.

- John V. Elmore, Esq., Author

About this edition

• Publisher: Amber Books
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0972751939
• ISBN 13: 9780972751933
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Yvonne Rose