MURDER IN THE COURTROOM (330 pages) is the true story of the 1954 courtroom murder of Judge Allison Wade. With unwavering clarity and a gut-wrenching honesty, witness after witness provided the authors an almost unbelievable tale of a marriage gone so wrong that it led to murder.

Twenty-eight-year-old Norman Moon was the first—and perhaps the only—20 th century American husband to settle his divorce problems with a judge by sticking a .45 automatic in his pants, and, when his case was called before the bench, to spray the courtroom with a fusillade of bullets—some say--were aimed at his wife’s attorney, the DA, and the judge. He missed the attorney and the DA and he even missed the judge with his first shots, until he got close enough that he just couldn’t miss.

Those shots were heard around the world and before the sun came up the next day, the story of this small-town murder was on the front page of just about every major newspaper in the United States. Even the Los Angeles Times ran it on the front page.

Fifty years later, two topnotch journalists decided that this story needed to be told—so that the mistakes and missteps that ruined a dozen lives might never happen again.

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