Charles Sevilla | Books

Disorder in the Court

Great Fractured Moments in Courtroom History

By Charles Sevilla

In America's courtooms, the verdict is laughter
Sit back and enjoy a collection of verbatim exchanges from the halls of justice, where defendants and plaintiffs, lawyers and witnesses, juries and judges, collide to produce memorably insane comedy.

Disorderly Conduct

Verbatim Excerpts from Actual Cases

By Charles Sevilla

This assortment of unintentionally amusing courtroom exchanges ranges from the testimony of expert witnesses to jury selection to cross examination to creative defense, closing argument, and sentencing — a rollicking guide to America's legal system.

Wilkes: His Life and Crimes

By Charles Sevilla

The story of a wily criminal lawyer who swashbuckles his way through the stormy perils of New York's courtrooms--in a series of amusing episodes chronicled by his admiring partner. American admirers of John Mortimer's brilliant maverick barrister Horace Rum-pole who have been waiting for a colonial counterpart should rejoice at the arrival of John Wilkes, defender of the indefensible and the grotesque.

Wilkes on Trial

By Charles Sevilla

Like a graffiti-covered wall, the State v. Diderot case has legendary defense attorney John Wilkes' name written all over it. The victim is pretty, blind, white, and defenseless, and her alleged attacker is anything but. Lyle Diderot has a face that would terrify his own mother, not to mention...

Wilkes Syndrome: Trials of a Defense Attorney

By Charles Sevilla

Wilkes defends two criminal trials at once, one involving a New York State Senator on trial for attempted murder, and the other a Broadway producer accused of assaulting a New York Times theater critic. This mendaciously accurate satire is laugh out loud funny.