Introduction1 Please Don't Come HereOn What Happens When a Black Woman Must Aid in a Deportation Arrest2 Wanna See Something Funny?On Being Trained by a White Male Colleague How to Interrogate a Black Defendant3 "I Want No Part of This"On the Older Black Woman Victim Who Pleads for Lenience for a Young Black Defendant4 She Needed Me to Believe HerOn the Domestic Violence Survivor Afraid to Be Judged5 That's Not MeOn the Real Case of Mistaken Identity6 A Seat at the (Right) TableOn the Tension Between Black Defense Attorneys and Prosecutors7 BabyfaceOn the Conviction of a Baby-Faced Defendant Who Acts Against His Self-interest8 There's Still TimeOn Prosecuting a Mother for Child Abuse While Faced with the Prospect of Losing My Own9 Not Their Son, TooOn Watching the Victim's Family Beg Not to Have Their Son's Murderer Go to Prison10 No One Who Had Been Raped Would HaveOn Watching a Female Judge Victim-Blame a Teenage Girl Based on Her Courtroom Attire11 She's Always Been Such a Good GirlOn Cross-Examining a Naive and Helpless Mother Trying to Defend Her Daughter on Trial12 Grandstanding for JusticeOn the Roles We Play Within the Grand Jury13 "The Chew"On the Role of Privilege in Charging Decisions14 I Just Don't Believe in It!On the Tension Between Illegal and Wrong15 Chess PieOn a Prosecutor Embraced Outside of the Courtroom16 It Didn't Have to Happen to MeOn the Haunting Effect of Secondary TraumaConclusionAcknowledgments