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Michael S. Lief

In addition to his writing, Michael S. Lief works as a senior deputy district attorney in Southern California. He co-authored The Devil's Advocates with H. Mitchell Caldwell in 2007 after previously writing And the Walls Came Tumbling Down: Greatest Closing Arguments Protecting Civil Liberties and Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury with Mr. Caldwell. "And the Walls Came Tumbling Down" was cited in a brief submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Kiyemba et. al. v. Obama. During the Cold War, Lief served in the United States Navy as a submarine driver.

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The strange story behind the most cited case in American history: THE MIRANDA DECISION