Good counsel

"Charismatic trial lawyer Jack Stanton begins his career as a public defender in the Washington, D.C., "Agency." His dogged research and painstaking client preparation win him some very tough cases against the District's corps of prosecuting attorneys.". "He believes with all his heart that indigent clients have a right to the best legal defense possible. And he represents the least defendable: the chronic sex offender accused of rape at gun-point, the African-American boy accused of killing a white neighbor. He gets them off. He has "the gift." Everybody recognizes it.". "Ultimately,…