Defending Mohammad: The Unfinished Story of the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing Trial and Why It Matters Today

by Robert E. Precht

What would you do if you had to defend a profoundly unpopular person? This is the candid, first-person account of an ordinary public defender who by chance is assigned to represent the lead suspect in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing trial. Taking readers behind the scenes of a terrorism trial, the book also explores the meaning of justice and highlights the disturbing fact that the self-confessed mastermind of the 1993 and 2001 attacks, who has been in U.S. custody since 2003, has never been brought to trial.

190 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 28, 2003

Reviews

[Alex Linschoten · Rating 3 out of 5]

An interesting summation of one of the defence lawyers' internal monologue while he was working on the 1993 WTC bombing case. The book has dated a little since publication, despite the addition of a foreword written in 2016.

[Tori · Rating 3 out of 5]

The internal dialog was very interesting, but I wish it included more facts and was a little more in depth.