Photo: Bonnie Whicher
James Hope, J.D. Publisher Executive Editor
prognostications pontifications platitudes prattle f r^om the Publisher AUGUST, 2015
Looking back on nearly six years' worth of cover-articles and other main features, it struck me how some ideas go immediately from mind-to-paper, while other ideas need to ‘percolate’ for a while... occasionally for a long time. (The coverarticle from our last Issue—“The Day We All Got Sued”—reverberated around the walls of my mind for about four years before making it to print, as did the cover-article about legendary attorney James Durden.) Likewise, it's been that same way with the current Issue regarding ‘hypnotically enhanced testimony.’ The genesis of the current cover-story traces all the way back to law school and a paper I wrote for an upper-level Law & Psychiatry class. The trouble was, I needed a Lake County, Florida, connection to make the story relevant to Lake Legal News. A bit of further research, however, and “Bingo!” So I now invite you to enter a Lake County time-capsule back to a trial courtroom where you will find Judge John Booth, prosecutors G. Richard Singeltary and Mark Hill, together with defense attorneys Bill Stone and Comedy-Watch has joined the Bob Williams. (The younger version Lake Legal News family of of all of these men!) And of course, quarterly magazines... don't forget to throw in a Stateprovided hypnotist, just to make an already extraordinary murder trial that much more interesting; the story begins on page 30...
Lake Legal News Aug. 2015
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