August Meeting: Legal Pitfalls in Writing Crime Fiction

M.J. Polelle is an emeritus professor of law from the University of Illinois at Chicago, In his academic career he taught, among other courses, trial practice, evidence law, tort law, and constitutional law. He also served as a Special Assistant State’s attorney for Cook County, Illinois and Professor-Reporter for the Illinois Judicial Conference. Before his academic career, he was a civil trial lawyer in Chicago. A resident now of Sarasota, he has completed two novels, THE MITHRAS CONSPIRACY and AMERICAN CONSPIRACY. He is at work on a third.