Lust for Justice
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| Author | Paulette Frankl |
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| Illustrator | Paulette Frankl |
| Cover artist | Paulette Frankl |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Biography, True crime |
| Publisher | Lightning Rod Publications |
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October 22, 2010 |
| Pages | 292 pp (Paperback ed) |
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Lust for Justice: The Radical Life and Law of J. Tony Serra is a non-fiction biographical account by author and courtroom artist Paulette Frankl about renowned counterculture defense attorney J. Tony Serra.
Serra began his practice in the 1960s, an era he has called the golden age of law. The book, which took 17 years for Frankl to write, was edited by Deke Castleman with a foreword by defense attorney Gerry Spence.
Frankl, a courtroom artist, spent more than a decade following Serra from courtroom to courtroom, sketching and painting him as he defended clients, many of whom were charged with murder. "I didn't want to write a book about him," Frankl told the San Francisco Bay Guardian. "I wanted to be his artist."
The first large case she attended was Serra's representation of Ellie Nesler, who, during a court hearing, gunned down and killed her son's accused molester. After watching Serra's performance during Nesler's trial, Frankl told Serra, "Let's do (a book) -- your words, my art," according to The Sixties blog. Frankl and Serra "scribbled out an agreement" on the hood of her car in a parking lot.
But as time went on, it became evident Serra was too busy in court to write his autobiography, and Frankl began penning a biography.
Cases captured in words and images in the book include Huey Newton and the Black Panthers, the White Panthers, Russell Little, Kathleen Soliah with the SLA, the Hells Angels, Chol Soo Lee, Hooty Croy, Bear Lincoln, Judi Bari, and Rick Tabish in the Ted Binion homicide case. It also includes Serra's two prison terms for tax evasion.
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