{"product_id":"9780984836567","title":"Undeterred: Memoirs of an Unusual Magistrate","description":"AFTER GRADUATING FROM UC BERKELEY, SMITH gained experience in the US Army from 1955 to 1957. He then attended Loyola Law School. In a moot court competition,\u003cbr\u003eSmith gave the best oral argument.\u003cbr\u003eSmith practiced as a lawyer for a period of time, became an Alhambra Municipal Court Judge, and then a Los\u003cbr\u003eAngeles Superior Court Judge. While he was a Municipal\u003cbr\u003eCourt Judge, one of his cases made history. Smith issued a pretrial gag order to protect the defendant's right to a fair trial. The Court of Appeal upheld the validity of Smith's gag order for the first time.\u003cbr\u003eIn 1979, Judge Smith presided over a death penalty trial without a jury. Both sides-defense and prosecution had to place enormous trust in Smith because Smith's ruling was a\u003cbr\u003eUndeterred 193\u003cbr\u003eAuthor after climbing Thumb Butte Mountain, 2003\u003cbr\u003eUndeterred_2 6\/26\/13 8:14 PM Page 193\u003cbr\u003ematter of life and death for the accused. Death penalty trials without a jury were almost unheard of.\u003cbr\u003eSmith, in 1981, presided over the libel case of Carol\u003cbr\u003eBurnett v the National Enquirer. It was the first civil jury trial to be televised nationally.\u003cbr\u003eFrom 1988 to 2001, Smith was a private arbitrator and mediator. Thousands of clients completely trusted him and paid him accordingly.\u003cbr\u003eAfter retiring from being an arbitrator, Smith wrote his first novel, The Magistrates. He entered the novel in a contest along with 750 other contestants and won First Prize.\u003cbr\u003eHe began yet another career, this time as an award-winning writer.\u003cbr\u003eJudge Smith never gave up on himself or anyone else. In his 70s,he was hit with a catastrophic staph infection. Doc -\u003cbr\u003etors told him it was unlikely that he would ever walk again.\u003cbr\u003eOne year after the staph infection, Judge Smith walked up a mountain called Thumb Butte in Prescott, Arizona.","brand":"JADA Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49849767657712,"sku":"9780984836567","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780984836567","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}