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| Disorderly Conduct: Excerpts from Actual Cases | 
 enlarge | Creators: Charles M. Sevilla, Gerald F. Uelmen, Rodney R. Jones
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Category: Book
List Price: $11.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (5 reviews)
Sales Rank: 78976
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 171
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.5
ISBN: 0393319261
Dewey Decimal Number: 347.737
EAN: 9780393319262
ASIN: 0393319261
Publication Date: August 1, 1999
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Book Description
This assortment of unintentionally amusing courtroom exchanges ranges from the testimony of expert witnesses to jury selection to cross examination to creative defense, closing argument, and sentencing --a rollicking guide to America's legal system.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Funny courtroom satire January 7, 2008
If you like dry satire, you'll like these little courtroom excerpts. Although the setting is the legal arena, it's less about law and more about the idiotic things people say. Good for a quick laugh.
Amusing but short September 27, 2006
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I enjoyed the book, but I had read it in an hour, and I have no desire to read it again. So what do I do with it now? I'll give it to someone else. Save your money and borrow this book from a friend or from the local library.
Actual Reviews.... April 30, 2003
12 out of 14 found this review helpful
The 1st of 2 books by Charles M. Sevilla (with others on this book) that takes a humorous look at life in the courtroom. I'm sure that a lot of you have gotten the e-mail with excerpts from this book (which is what prompted me to buy the book and the 2nd "Disorder in the Court"). With quotes like "Then I object to the District Attorney objecting to my objecting to standard legal objections" (p. 60) there is something in this book to tickle everyone's funny bone. Anyone in or around the legal professions should find this book amusing. Amusing illustrations illuminate some of the quotes. I found some quote more amusing that others, but over all got a good chuckle out of the book. Over all this is a good book. It would be great for the beach - pick it up, put it down and pick it up again, no worrying about loosing your place in the story.
 Funny in the first degree! January 20, 2000
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
Another book that covers the misquotes of the legal system? Maybe but the funny stories that you will read make it a real pleasure to review this book. This 170 plus page book of stories and illustration are actual excerpts from cases and I am glad to have read this book.Covered in the book is testimony from expert witnesses, the jury selection process, cross-examinations, opening and closing arguments and the sentencing phase. Each section is so enjoyable and so funny, I found myself laughing for hours. Poking fun at the legal profession is getting to be too easy and this book proves it. The stories are great and coupled with the fantastic illustrations you have an unbeatable combination. A real collectors item for those in and out of the legal field. The verdict is in and it's unanimous, guilty of laughter in the first degree. Well done and congratulations on a fine and hilarious book!
hilarious, incredible, and REAL! May 2, 1999
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
This is the kind of book that is hard to put down once you've started reading it. Except to say that it was given to me by a lawyer and every lawyer, paralegal, and secretary that I've shared it with has loved it, there's nothing more to say. If you find courtroom proceedings (trial and otherwise) interesting, GET THIS BOOK.
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