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A CURE FOR NIGHT
By Justin Peacock
341 pages. Doubleday. $24.95.

After experimenting with heroin, Joel Deveraux loses his job at a prestigious, high-paying Manhattan law firm and washes up at the Brooklyn public defenders’ office, handling arraignments. Then his boss asks him to take the second seat on the defense of Lorenzo Tate, a black drug dealer accused of killing Seth Lipton, a white college student, and wounding Devin Wallace, another drug dealer, in a shooting. Lorenzo has been identified as the shooter but insists he is innocent. And Joel and Myra Goldstein, the tough lead defender on the case, are soon finding that the prosecution’s narrative is a little too simple to be believed. Myra, who teaches Joel about the law, and more, gives the book its title: “That’s what criminal law is: it’s how the day tries to correct the night’s mistakes,” she tells him one evening over drinks. “That’s why we’ll never run out of work. Not unless someone invents a cure for night.”

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