Below I’ll give you my selections for the best Courtroom books by a few categories. I will cover these and other great books more in depth later.
- 30 Days of Justis (Michael Gresham Series) (2018)
- A Killer’s Wife (2020)
- Disorder in the Court: Great Fractured Moments in Courtroom History (1999)
- Criminal Procedure: From the Courtroom to the Street (Aspen Criminal Justice) (2019)
- Courtroom 302: A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse (2006)
- Courtroom Evidence Handbook, 2018-2019 Student Edition (Selected Statutes) (2018)
- Courtroom Evidence Handbook, 2019-2020 Student Edition (Selected Statutes) (2019)
- From the Closet to the Courtroom: Five LGBT Rights Lawsuits That Have Changed Our Nation (Queer Ideas/Queer Action) (2011)
- The Bilingual Courtroom: Court Interpreters in the Judicial Process, Second Edition (2017)
- From The Courtroom of Heaven To the Throne Of Grace and Mercy (2011)
- Jeopardy in the Courtroom: A Scientific Analysis of Children’s Testimony (1995)
- Good Intentions (2018)
30 Days of Justis (Michael Gresham Series) (2018)
They meet in a conference room just outside her cell. He’s a lawyer and immediately sees he has no answers for her. She has but 30 days until her execution for aggravated murder.Her case has been appealed to all higher courts. Each has denied her. There are no appeals left when Michael Gresham comes to her side. Her first lawyers have given up; there is nothing left to do. So he does the next best thing: he goes back to the first, the beginning of the case. Ancient records are reviewed.
A Killer’s Wife (2020)
Fourteen years ago, prosecutor Jessica Yardley’s husband went to prison for a series of brutal murders. She’s finally created a life with her daughter and is a well-respected attorney. She’s moving on.
Disorder in the Court: Great Fractured Moments in Courtroom History (1999)
In America’s courtooms, the verdict is laughter.Sit back and enjoy a collection of verbatim exchanges from the halls of justice, where defendants and plaintiffs, lawyers and witnesses, juries and judges, collide to produce memorably insane comedy.A: You mumbled on the first part of that and I couldn’t understand what you were saying. Could you repeat the question?Q: I mumbled, did I? Well, we’ll just ask the court reporter to read back what I said.
Criminal Procedure: From the Courtroom to the Street (Aspen Criminal Justice) (2019)
Preparing the student for a career in criminal justice, Criminal Procedure: From the Courtroom to the Street, Second Edition was written with the undergraduate in mind. Drawing on extensive experience as a police officer and practicing criminal defense attorney, author Roger Wright knows that criminal justice professionals need an integrated understanding of legal theory, procedure, and practice.
Courtroom 302: A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse (2006)
Courtroom 302 is the fascinating story of one year in Chicago’s Cook County Criminal Courthouse, the busiest felony courthouse in the country. Here we see the system through the eyes of the men and women who experience it, not only in the courtroom but in the lockup, the jury room, the judge’s chambers, the spectators’ gallery.
Courtroom Evidence Handbook, 2018-2019 Student Edition (Selected Statutes) (2018)
Designed both for law student advocates and students enrolled in traditional evidence courses, this handbook provides full coverage of courtroom evidence procedures, rules, and law. It contains the Federal Rules of Evidence, including recent and pending amendments; offers rule-by-rule commentary, serving as a mini-treatise on federal rules; and covers objections and responses.
Courtroom Evidence Handbook, 2019-2020 Student Edition (Selected Statutes) (2019)
Designed both for law student advocates and students enrolled in traditional evidence courses, this handbook provides full coverage of courtroom evidence procedures, rules, and law. It contains the Federal Rules of Evidence, including recent and pending amendments; offers rule-by-rule commentary, serving as a mini-treatise on federal rules; and covers objections and responses.
From the Closet to the Courtroom: Five LGBT Rights Lawsuits That Have Changed Our Nation (Queer Ideas/Queer Action) (2011)
Engaging and largely untold, From the Closet to the Courtroom explores how five pivotal lawsuits have altered LGBT history. Beginning each case narrative at the center—with the litigants and their lawyers—law professor Carlos Ball follows the stories behind each crucial lawsuit. He traces the parties from their communities to the courtroom, while deftly weaving in rich sociohistorical context and analyzing the lasting legal and political impact of each judicial outcome.
The Bilingual Courtroom: Court Interpreters in the Judicial Process, Second Edition (2017)
Susan Berk-Seligson’s groundbreaking book draws on more than one hundred hours of audio recordings of Spanish/English court proceedings in federal, state, and municipal courts—along with a number of psycholinguistic experiments involving mock juror reactions to interpreted testimony—to present a systematic study of court interpreters that raises some alarming, vitally important concerns.
From The Courtroom of Heaven To the Throne Of Grace and Mercy (2011)
As a born again Christian, I had never given the Courtroom of Heaven a thought. Then in answer to a prayer for our daughter, who was backslidden the Lord gave me a dream. The dream contained a strategy to use in the Courtroom of Heaven on her behalf. As a result she was set free and restored. Included in this book is the dream, and the strategy that can be used to win your specific petition in the Heavenly Court.
Jeopardy in the Courtroom: A Scientific Analysis of Children’s Testimony (1995)
An examination of cases in which children were key witnesses in criminal child abuse trials, this book considers the credibility of children’s testimony, and asks whether children are more suggestible than adults.
Good Intentions (2018)
Judge Jim Thompson’s world is unraveling. He’s facing public backlash on a decision-gone-wrong for a young boy in foster care and, even worse, he’s just discovered that his mentor, Judge Meyer, has been murdered.Despite his self-doubt in the face of media scrutiny, Jim is determined to continue his friend’s legacy—and find his killer. As he digs into the mysterious death, Jim comes across a case that had haunted the judge for decades—a case he couldn’t let go of.
Best Courtroom Books You Must Read
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The Profiler Diaries 2: From crime scene to courtroom
Author(s): Gérard Labuschagne
ID: 3578311, Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa, Year: 2022, Size: 7 Mb, Format: epub
Criminal Evidence: From Crime Scene to Courtroom
Author(s): Derek Regensburger
ID: 3635380, Publisher: Aspen Publishing, Year: 2022, Size: 17 Mb, Format: epub
Talking International Law: Legal Argumentation Outside the Courtroom
Author(s): Ian Johnstone (editor), Steven Ratner (editor)
ID: 3080415, Publisher: Oxford University Press, Year: 2021, Size: 28 Mb, Format: pdf
Please note that this booklist is not final. Some books are really best-sellers according to Chicago Tribune, others are composed by unknown writers. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant books you could recommend? Leave a comment if you have any feedback on the list.