>>/45948/ Judge Frederic Block has muh books deals and Hollywood deals.
Another chapter, involving the sentencing of defendants convicted of trafficking young women from Mexico and forcing them into prostitution, begins with an admission that Judge Block thought of his daughter often during the case, even as he acknowledges the importance of separating “emotional baggage” from the case at hand.
“Crimes and Punishments” isn’t the first time Judge Block has used his writing to bring a wider readership into his chambers. In 2012, he published a memoir about his career as a federal trial judge titled “Disrobed.” Amid the positive notices he received was a personal phone call from fellow district judge-turned-writer Michael Ponsor, the author of two novels about tough cases overseen by a federal district judge in Massachusetts, who encouraged him to try his hand at fiction.
Judge Block’s second book, the 2017 novel “Race to Judgement,” fictionalized a series of high-profile cases, including a 2003 criminal trial over a murder during the 1991 Crown Heights riots and a wrongful conviction civil suit against New York City that eventually settled. The judge said the book is in the process of being adapted into a television pilot.
https://www.law360.com/articles/1179687/inside-the-mind-of-a-sentencing-judge
Judge Michael Ponsor from above is another Clinton appointed judge with the book deals. He was a teacher in Kenya for a while.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7145916.Michael_Ponsor
https://execed.gsd.harvard.edu/people/michael-ponsor
Disrobed by Frederic Block.
Block followed law school with a clerkship on the New York State Supreme Court, thirty-two years as an attorney in Centereach, Patchogue, Port Jefferson, and Smithtown, and eighteen years on the U.S. District Court, where he presided over the trials of mobster Peter Gotti, drug kingpin Kenneth “Supreme” McGriff, and Bear Stearns hedge fund managers Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin. The book recounts all of his high-profile cases in chapters titled “Death,” “Racketeering,” “Guns,” “Drugs,” “Discrimination,” “Race Riots,” “Terrorism,” and “Foreign Affairs.” So far, the response has been very favorable. President Bill Clinton, who nominated Block for the judiciary, called it “a compelling introduction to the life of a federal judge,” and Judge Judy Sheindlin described the memoir as “a must read for any court buff.”
https://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/spotlights/The-Life-and-Work-of-a-Judge-by-Frederic-Block.cfm