Lust for Justice: The Radical Life and Law of J. Tony Serra is the biography of San Francisco’s charismatic counter culture lawyer, acclaimed as one of the ten top criminal defense lawyers of the century. His long career has made him an icon of the underdog and a champion of civil rights leaders. Get the inside-scoop on the law through the eyes of one of its greatest practitioners in this newly-released biography.
Serra’s successful defense of Black Panther leader Huey Newton launched him into the orb of great criminal defense lawyers. His cases are the subject of the Hollywood film “True Believer” and TV docudramas. His tax issues with the IRS landed him in Lompoc Prison Camp for 10 months, which he chronicled in essays and poetry sampled in this book.
Meet Tony Serra and author/artist Paulette Frankl at 7:30pm on Saturday, May 14, 2011, at Monterey College of Law. Books as well as signed courtroom art in original and print form will be available. More about Lust for Justice can be seen at www.lustforjustice.net
This book took seventeen years to come to fruition. Frankl spent over a decade in and out of the courtroom with Serra in order to know her subject in depth.
Saturday, March 14, 7:30pm
Monterey College of Law
100 Colonel Durham Street
Seaside, CA
Admission is free.
Sponsored by the National Lawyers Guild - Monterey Bay Area
For more info, call: 831-869-2834
