"Most Americans know little about the work of
Assistant United States Attorneys, the federal prosecutors granted
sweeping authority to investigate and try in a court of law the
nation's most dangerous criminals. In this account of his years as an
AUSA, John Kroger offers an insider's perspective on some of the most
talked about courtroom dramas of the past decade." "Kroger shows us how
to flip a perp, construct an airtight argument, win over a jury, and
placate an exacting judge. But he also shows how a job that consumes
every waking hour and requires coercive techniques to yield results can
erode even the firmest sense of what is fair and just. Often
dissatisfied with the system, Kroger explains why our law enforcement
policies frequently fail in critical areas like drug trafficking and
white-collar crime, and he proposes new, more effective
measures."--BOOK JACKET.
Excerpt:"I never adopted one single philosophical point of view. On the contrary, I borrowed bits and pieces of wisdom from a broad variety of thinkers; from Aristotle, the importance of forming good habits, of keeping one's life in balance, of friendship and the life of the mind; from Kant, the value of honesty, from Nietzsche, the importance of rigorous, independent critical thinking; from Aquinas, the
value of analytic clarity. I revered these thinkers, but one influence stood out above them all; the great nineteenth-century British utilitarian philosophers Jeremy Bentham and Stuart Mill.
Bentham and Mill were concerned with a very basic but critical question. What makes an action "good"?
They answered that a person's actions should be judged by their social consequences. An action is good if it tends to maximize overall human happiness and bad if it leads to increased suffering."
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