Courtroom 302: A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse

Courtroom 302: A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse

Courtroom 302 is the fascinating story of one year in Chicago's Cook County Criminal Courthouse, the busiest felony courthouse in the country. Here we see the system through the eyes of the men and wo…

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