The Bridgeport Rule

Daniel Callahan doesn’t have to believe his clients. He just has to find the doubt.

 

Sixteen years in the Chicago criminal courts, that’s been enough.

 

Then the Bridgeport Rule gives him Patrick Doyle, a cop charged with shooting an unarmed seventeen-year-old dead on a dark street in the 9th District. The shooting is on video. The State’s Attorney wants a conviction. And buried in the file is fifteen seconds of audio that turns the whole case inside out, and puts a question to Callahan he can’t set down.

 

Not whether he can win it. What he’s willing to become to do it.

 

The Bridgeport Rule is the first novel in the Callahan’s Faults series, legal thrillers set in the Chicago criminal courts, where the law is exact and the people practicing it are not.