
By John Roemer
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Stephen S. Trott was the hard-charging head of the criminal division in President Ronald Reagan's Department of Justice when a prominent intellectual foe published instructions on how to defend even the most reprehensible criminals -and how to ferret out prosecutorial misconduct.
Trott, now a senior circuit judge at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, was so impressed by Alan M. Dershowitz' 1982 volume... (continued)