title: Crazy People in Court
author: Judge Robert Coates
description: "With an enlightened touch of experience, candor and humor, Judge Coates has expertly illuminated a sensitive subject for public consumption and much in need of discussion as the discourse rages in America today about human dignity, rights and an efficacious legal process."<b>Carl E. Englund</b>,<i>forensic psychologist</i><br /><i></i><br />"Judge Robert Coates has again shone a light of reason onto a little-examined but important arena. His earlier book, 'A Street Is not Home,' was the beginning of interest in solutions to American homelessness. In 'Crazy People in Court,' Judge Coates reveals the wide variety of mental problems seen in our courts - and the great hope for recovery, for many."<b>Henry Waxman</b>,<i>former chairman of the Committee on Health in the House of Representatives</i>
zlib_text: 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **My girlfriends are the sisters I picked out for myself.**
  
  
  
  
  
  _–  Mary-Margaret Martinez_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **Justice is but truth in action.**
  
  
  
  
  
  _–  Justice Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court of the United States_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  From Publishers Weekly
  
  
  
  
  
  Rookie federal judge Cate Fante's early days on the Philadelphia bench rapidly
  descend into nightmare in this compelling stand-alone legal thriller from
  bestseller Scottoline (Devil's Corner). Fante is the presiding judge in an
  intellectual property case in which Richard Marz, a former Philly prosecutor,
  is suing Art Simone, a powerhouse Hollywood producer, for stealing his idea
  for a TV series about a team of prosecutors called Attorneys@Law. The day
  after Fante dismisses the lawsuit, someone plugs Simone in the forehead with
  a.22 outside the restaurant where he was dining with his attorneys. Marz is
  the chief suspect, and the authorities believe Fante could be his next victim.
  But her troubles really b