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Title: For Cognoscenti Only
Review: Having been a practicing criminal lawyer for over 30 years, and having been a student of Roman history for nearly 50 years, I had trouble digesting this book. The diction was turgid, the allusions were obscure, and the author assumed too much prior knowledge on the part of the reader.Regardless of its shortcomings, the book repaid careful study. I recently began reading "The Trial and Death of Jesus" by Haim Herman Cohn, an Israeli Supreme Court Justice. That book presents another hard reading experience, but the background of criminal law and procedure gained from this book has served me well in helping to place Justice Cohn's analysis in context.
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