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Barbara C. Johnson
Female
Town of Atenas, Canton of Atenas, Province of Alajuela
Costa Rica
Profile Information:
- Hometown:
- Newton, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
- About Me:
- I practiced law in Massachusetts for almost 20 years. I wrote a book whistleblowing on the judiciary. It arrived on Amazon.com a month after I arrived in Costa Rica. Currently I have two more books for pro-se-ers, people who are representing themselves in court, but the two How-to books are being pushed off my plate by a potential FACTION novel about four Native Americans wrongfully convicted of aggravated sexual assault and sentenced to 30 years incarceration. The purpose of the book is to create a public outcry loud enough to force the federal court to review the horrific results of the egregious criminal process.
barbjohnson74@gmail.com, falseallegations.com, barbforgovernor.com (2002), author of Behind the Black Robes: Failed Justice, available on Amazon.com at http://www.amazon.com/Behind-Black-Robes-Failed-Justice/dp/14392411... My articles: Writing a novel with an art-work selection -- www.pronlinenews.com & http://pronlinenews.com/?p=1214 and Wounded Knee Massacre Resurrected -- http://pronlinenews.com/?p=1473 and Macro and Micro Structure of Novel, Chapter and Scene -- http://pronlinenews.com/?p=1939 - I Am A:
- Writer
- Website:
- http://www.falseallegations.com, www.barbforgovernor.com (2002)
- Books And Authors I Like:
- The list is endless. Since my retirement, I read as much history (primarily British and American history) as I do legal genre works. In my youthful years, Russian, French, and German literature. Never. never romance novels. which is not to say that I write damn good sex scenes!
- Movies And TV Shows I Like:
- Everything with Kevin Costner, Julie Roberts. Drop Dead Diva, Desperate Housewives, Grey/Gray's Anatomy, Bad Men, and the one with Arquette in it (she works for the DA).
Anne Claybrook
I acted as second chair for all of our large litigation trials (to preserve and prevent error, as needed), but my real love was appellate practice. Perhaps I was just fortunate in where I practiced but I found that most judges were well prepared, and I much preferred talking to a panel of judges than to a jury. I think that there really tends to be 2 different personalities in litigation--those that shine at trial and those that find their niche just talking to the bench. I quickly learned I was the latter, and fortunately, even in our smaller firm, I got the opportunity to do just that. My partners hated appellate work, so it worked out great!
I have thought some about bringing in elements of some of our cases. We had one case in particular that had it all: fraud, mayhem, sex, allegations of murder. Unfortunately, another one of my partners has dibs on that one since he brought the clients into the firm! And there's always the David Koresh/compound thing . . . nah, I think I'll leave that one alone!!
Are you doing NaNo this year? There's another attorney here on CS that has signed up and we've decided to be buddies. She thinks she knows of another atty/writer in CA who is planning to sign up also. We'd have quite a nice writing group going! Let me know if you are interested and I will send you our NaNo IDs.
I look forward to talking to you more here on CS.
Oct 18, 2010
Anne Claybrook
The good thing about NaNo, I hear, is that it's an encouraging environment even if you don't reach the 50K goal--most don't. There is something about participating in an event with a large group of others, suffering along with them (boot camp??) that can breed greatness for some! To sign up, go to NaNoWriMo.org and follow the directions to sign up. Then, you can either let me know that you did and tell me your ID and I'll find you, or, search for me as Anne Claybrook and add me as a buddy. That will let me know, and I'll get you in touch with our other brave soul.
Oct 19, 2010
Vincent Zandri
Nov 29, 2010