The Advocate's Devil Author:Alan M. Dershowitz When a handsome, rising young basketball star is accused of rape, a prominent local attorney who is looking for a big win takes the case, which becomes his ultimate nightmare and threatens his basic beliefs and the life of a loved one. — This is a story of Joe Campbell, a handsome and charismatic basketball star with the New York Knicks, known as... more » the " White Knight," who is accused of raping a woman after she invites him up to her hotel room in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The athlete engages a prominent local attorney named Abe Ringel to defend him. From the initial facts of the case, Abe believes he has found an easy victory to stop what has been a recent losing streak in the courtroom.
As the case unfolds, and the legal defense team performs it's own investigation, Abe's associates become concerned that Campbell is concealing facts that may show him to be guilty and dangerous. Abe disagrees. To so help sort through the issues, Abe calls upon his mentor, an aging lawyer and talmudic scholar named Haskel Levine. Together, these men explore the ethical dilemmas by a defense attorney who wants to win his case and serve justice at the same time.« less