Informed by nearly two decades of experience in criminal law and thoroughly immersed in legal and criminal history, this analytical narrative, told from an insider's perspective, discusses how many guilty parties go free because of political manoeuvrings and loopholes. Marrying the insight and ideas of an academic title to the dynamics of journalism, these thought-provoking stories of true crime show the need for a reformed criminal justice system and to think about judges in an entirely new way - as those who are responsible for the decline not only of justice but of democracy itself. For those who are angry or disturbed about what is happening to the criminal justice system, this examination will reinforce how in many circumstances truth is not present in this branch of the U.S. government.