Jed Rakoff, the well-known jurist from the Southern District of New York, just published “Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free -- And Other Paradoxes of our Broken Legal System.”  The book is brutal in its criticism.  Wait.  Can a sitting federal judge really say such things?  Yes, Rakoff told me during an hour-long interview that I did with him for The ABA Journal.  Lots of books have been written about the legal system’s maladies.  But when its 200 pages, from a nationally-known sitting federal judge, it’s not like all the others.   

You can check out the interview here.