Courts and Criminals: A guide to procedures and practices - Softcover

Arthur Cheney Train

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9781502354075: Courts and Criminals: A guide to procedures and practices

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ISBN 10: 1502354071 ISBN 13: 9781502354075

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

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“But the unfortunate fact remains that all laws, however perfect, must in the end be administered by imperfect men. There is, alas! no such thing as a government of laws and not of men. You may have a government more of laws and less of men, or vice versa, but you cannot have an auto-administration of the Golden Rule. Sooner or later you come to a man—in the White House, or on a wool sack, or at a desk in an office, or in a blue coat and brass buttons—and then, to a very considerable extent, the question of how far ours is to be a government of laws or of men depends upon him.”

“Courts and Criminals” was written in 1922 by the former assistant district attorney in New York City. Train’s interactions with clients, together with his experiences in the courtroom, provided the material for the more than 250 short stories and novels he would write during his lifetime. Chapters of this book include: The Pleasant Fiction of the Presumption of Innocence; Preparing a Criminal Case for Trial; Sensationalism and Jury Trials; Why Do Men Kill?; Detectives and Others; Detectives Who Detect; Women in the Courts; Tricks of the Trade; What Fosters Crime; Insanity and the Law; and The Mala Vita in America.

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Arthur Cheney Train (6 September 1875 - 22 December 1945) was an American lawyer and legal thriller writer, particularly known for his novels of courtroom intrigue and the creation of the fictional lawyer Mr Ephraim Tutt. Train was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His father was politician and lawyer Charles Russell Train and his mother, Sara Maria Cheney. Train graduated from Harvard University in 1896 and Harvard Law School in 1899. In 1897 Train married Ethel Kissam and they had four children. Ethel died in 1923 and Train married Helen Coster Gerard with whom he had one child. In January 1901, Train became assistant in the office of the New York District Attorney and in 1904 he started his literary career with the publication of the short story The Maximilian Diamond in Leslie's Monthly. He spent the next decade running the two careers in parallel. From 1915 to 1922, Train was in private practice as a lawyer with Charles Albert Perkins while continuing to write, not just novels but advertising copy, vaudeville sketch comedy, poetry and journalism. In 1919, he created the popular character of Mr. Ephraim Tutt, a wily old lawyer who supported the common man and always had a trick up his sleeve to right the law's injustices. He also coauthored two science fiction novels with eminent physicist Robert W. Wood. After 1922, Train devoted himself to writing.

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