Too big to have an editor?

Too bad.

"There were scheduling and jury issues to discuss and each side's list of exhibits were [sic] to be handed in as well."

Reading Michael Connelly's excellent Lincoln Lawyer novel, The Reversal.

Of course, if this sort of picture of the process is accurate there is little reason to think it arrives at the truth.

And much reason to regard prosecutors, defense teams, and police with contempt and mistrust.

But what do I know?

Crime pays

Ask career mob and cartel leaders.

Ask insider traders.

Ask the Wells Fargo sales force who committed bank fraud on a vast scale and the execs at the top who pushed them into it.

If that's an excuse for Third World farmers of poppies and coca or ghetto kids who sell their products it's an excuse for pretty much everybody breaking the law for gain.

If it's not an excuse that's not because it isn't true.

Reading The Lincoln Lawyer.

Michael Connelly

Throughout his police career, Detective Hieronymus Bosch was an angry, violent man constantly at war with his own department and the world, as well as with crime.

He began to mellow toward the end, and since his forced retirement he has become far more humanly sympathetic as a private investigator in his sixties or perhaps even slightly older.

Though I will not yet say he has become likable.

I have just begun to read Connelly's Mickey Haller series, and so far Bosch's brother by another father is a total discredit to the legal system.

Still, in my estimation, the novels of both series have been wholly absorbing.