Sign up for the Plain Sight Books Newsletter and be notified when new books like this are released! by Robert Braithwaite Purchase Now: Amazon | Books & Things Description: With a jurisdiction covering southern Utah’s national parks and wide-open wilderness areas, you might think Judge Robert Braithwaite’s only cases were between crickets and tumbleweeds. Not even close. Over a twenty-seven-year judicial career, he’s seen everything: bighorn-sheep poachers in ultralight planes, canoodling nudes, duck killers—and each case got weirder the more he learned. Join Judge Braithwaite as he recollects these stranger- than-fiction stories and takes you inside the real legal process. Poignant, quirky, and full of life, this book includes cases that were decided in state-of-the-art courtrooms, in a Quonset hut in Big Water, and—when occasion called for it—in the judge’s front yard. Entertaining and eye-opening, this is one book you’ll have to read to believe.
About the Author: In a twenty-seven year career as a judge, Robert Braithwaite has been a circuit judge, a district judge, a juvenile judge, a pro tem Utah Supreme Court judge and is now a U. S. magistrate judge. While a state judge, he served on the Utah Judicial Council, the governing board of the Utah state judiciary, and served as chairman of its Policy and Planning subcommittee. As a part-time magistrate judge he now hears criminal cases arising in the southern half of Utah, usually occuring in National Parks and Monuments, National Forests, and federal lands. Needless to say, he rides a circuit, hearing cases in four diverse locations at St. George, Big Water, Moab, and Salt Lake City. His wife is an artist and art professor. Together they have raised four children. You Might Also Like:
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