lot of authority to start making waves in that regard. i don't know that the criminal defense bar is putting any pressure on the bar associations at all. i have no information on that really. it took the texas court of inquiry in the michael morton case that you all may have heard about, it received a lot of news and is now the subject of a book he's written. a man spent 25 years in prison accused of the murder of his wife while the prosecutor became a -- who hid the bloody bandanna evidence literally became a state court judge having run his campaign on his conviction of michael morton. of course, the dna on the bandanna completely exonerated michael morton thanks to the work of the innocence project over a number of years. the texas bar convened a special court of inquiry. that took an act of god and congress, basically, to get that done. it resulted in the state court judge being arrested in open

court, but he only served ten days. i think, you know, if we made the penalty, if you deliberately withhold evidence, you serve the length of time in prison that your victim wrongfully spent. that might kind of nip it in the bud. but, yes. >> i think what happens is judges have a certain expectation of what the lawyers before them will do. and it's particularly true of prosecutors. you expect lawyers to always tell the truth, you expect lawyers to always be entirely full square, particularly if you're a government prosecutor. and i think most judges have a hard time believing that the chicanery's actually going on. and so they tend to be less likely to look for it or to infer that something is misconduct. i had a case about 20 years ago where the prosecutor made

certain statements against the court. he then, same guy, foolishly argued on appeal. so i asked them about it. and after hemming and hawing, he disclosed something that he had not total the district -- told the district judge. he department want to do it, but -- he didn't want to do it, but with i was pretty insis tent. and we sent the case back. you ought to read it, it's a good opinion, it's well written. [laughter] but we sent it back to the district judge to make a decision whether to indict, to dismiss indictment with prejudice or without prejudice. the district judge, a very fine -- i should say republican appointee although it truly doesn't matter. it truly doesn't matter. very experienced judge had been a state court judge, had been a district judge for many years, the case came back, and he could not believe the answer that i got out of the prosecutor. there are he had been so convinced that that couldn't

possibly be the answer that he didn't even ask the question, he didn't press the question even though the defense lawyer said ask him this question, make sure -- so what happened was the judge was so shocked by it, he dismissed the indictment with prejudice which means the prosecution was done altogether. i think most judges just can't believe this is going on. and my two colleagues in the lopez case, i don't think they believed quite what was going on until they were pressed to do it. >> okay, thank you for that comment. i'm afraid we have run out of time, but everybody here is invited to the luncheon we'll be having afterwards. please thank our panel for a good discussion. [applause] >> and the cato bookstore has books outside for sale if anybody wants to get one before they leave, and i'll be glad to sign it. [inaudible conversations]

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>> booktv asked, what are you reading this summer? >> i try to keep a lot of different things going, and some of the books i'm reading is "lincoln's boys," the secretaries' impact on the administration. reading "founding of brothers" about how they actually did some things that are off the normal record, so that was really interesting to me. one that is sort of interesting in the latter context is a week called "roosevelt's secret war," and it's about the starting of our international espionage and how he started that in a real hodgepodge kind of way. so that's made an interesting read especially in light of all the things going on currently with the nsa and cia and the things that we have, pertinent perspective. another one i'm reading is "obama's enforcer," probably my most political book of the scherr, current political --

summer. but i think it goes to the heart of what we're doing in congress and the executive branch as well. one i'm also reading sort of historical is really interesting for me is "the white house ghosts," and it's about speech writers and how they have developed in the modern times since roosevelt forward and hearing from a personal standpoint, as a congressman, seeing how different presidents have interacted with their speech departments. and then i have one special one, a fiction book by a local writer from georgia called "origin," and it's getting ready to be made into a made-for-tv movie, so we're excited about that as well. >> what are you reading this summer? tell us what's on your summer reading list. tweet us @booktv, post it to our facebook page or send us an e-mail; booktv@c-span.org. >> having it occupied rather a

hassle for drivers. and the square was designed and built way back in the middle of the 19th century by the then-ruler in imitation of paris where he had studied and lived, the ruler, and in imitation of barren houseman's -- baron house match's reconfiguration of a modern city. we're starting to get those french round abouts here in ann arbor, i noticed. [laughter] we're catching up to house match. but cairo did some time ago. and i lived off of that square, and i went to school there because the american university in cairo main campus at that time but just off the tahrir square. and i had a lot of egyptian student friends, we hung out together, went to films together

and talked about the future. so when in january of 2011 thousands and thousands and ultimately, you know, hundreds of thousands of young people -- a lot of them students -- came to tahrir square and they actually occupied it, they brought tents and stayed there the night and some of them just didn't leave. they started putting up placards, hosni mubarak, please resign. we need a shower. [laughter] when they did that, i recognized them as the sons and daughters of the people i had gone to school with. and i had followed, you know, the arab world for 30 years, and so i felt a certain affinity to them, and i was very interested in what they had to say because their slogans were different from the ones that i had known, say, in the early '70s.

i remember, you know, it was the time of revolutionary row hasn't schism, but of the old 1960s che get very rah sort. but these young people talking about personal dignity, they were talking about transparent elections. you know, i could be wrong, but i just don't think that transparent elections was the main talking point of most people in the arab world in the early '70s. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> john hope bryant, founder and ceo of operation hope and a member of president obama's advisory council on financial capability for young americans, argues that we can put our economy back on track by building financial literacy and expanding opportunities in poor communities in the united states. this is an hour, 15.