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- 1957-10-05
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- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Wohnorte
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Ausbildung
- Haverford College (double major in anthropology and sociology|1979)
Loyola Law School (Juris Doctor) - Berufe
- lawyer
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- Geragos & Geragos
Armenia Fund - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Trial Lawyer of The Year by the Los Angeles Criminal Courts Bar Association (1999)
Jerry Giesler Memorial Award for Trial Skills, Judgement & Dedication (1999)
Humanitarian of the Year by the Mexican American Grocers Association (2001)
Professional of The Year by the Armenian Professional Society. (2004)
Consumer Attorney of the Year by the Consumer Attorneys of California (2005)
Attorney of the Year by the California Lawyer magazine (2006) - Agent
- Deborah Grosvenor
- Kurzbiographie
- Mark John Geragos (born October 5, 1957) is an Armenian-American criminal defense lawyer. He is considered a celebrity lawyer. He is the head of Geragos & Geragos, a Los Angeles-based law firm that focuses on both criminal- and civil-trial work. In his thirty-plus-year career, he has tried more than three hundred cases and has served as a regular legal analyst on CNN, Fox, and ABC shows. In addition to his role on CNN through Anderson Cooper 360°, Mark Geragos and Sunny Hostin host a legal program entitled "Making the Case". "Making the Case" airs Monday nights on CNN at 10:30pm. [from Mark Geragos in Wikipedia and Mistrial (2013)]
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The book focuses successively on the following aspects of the system: (a) the strong role that politics plays in criminal trials, especially given the impact of television; (b) the much- misunderstood role of defense attorneys; (c) clients the authors have had; (d) prosecutors they have known, including the unethical and incompetent; (e) judges, likewise unethical and incompetent; (f) police officers; (g) the news media; and (h) flaws in the system and how they should be fixed. Chapter titles give a sense of the tone and perspective: on judges -- “At Least Get it Wrong for Both Sides;” on police officers: “To Preserve, to Protect, and to Lie;” on news outlets: “The Media: Shame on You for Believing What We Say”; on reform: “The Best System in the World?”
The authors have many complaints to level, and present their arguments in the form of scattered anecdotes (rather than statistics), many of which deal in the sort of gossip and innuendo criticized elsewhere in the book. They also have scores to settle, as in their disappointment that their client Scott Peterson was convicted of murder (the authors aver that he “may” have been innocent). Consequently, the book comes off as somewhat self- serving. Nevertheless, I believe the authors have hit upon serious flaws in the criminal justice system. Of particular note is the chapter on the important roles of defense attorneys – roles that are widely misunderstood by the general public. (The misconception that accused defendants must be guilty and do not deserve a strong defense is perplexing, foolish, and downright dangerous). Also of note is a chapter on recommendations for reform, however unrealistic such reform may be at present. In sum, this is a worthy book, one written from a particular viewpoint that is seldom heard above the din of our degraded political discourse.… (mehr)