Carol Elder Bruce is among a group of prominent lawyers and legal personalities featured in a new collection of essays examining the concepts of guilt and innocence in Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Letters and Essays from the Famous and Infamous on the True Legal Definition of Guilt in America's Courtrooms (Phoenix Books). Ms. Bruce's essay, "Reasonable Doubt in Moscow," describes her experience as a member of a three-person team invited by the American Bar Association Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative in 1993 to assist the Russian government with the reestablishment of jury trials. Ms. Bruce's work helped lay the ground work for the first jury trials in Russia since they were abolished during the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917.
This just-published book was edited by and contains an introduction by CNN talk-show host, Larry King. Other contributors to Beyond a Reasonable Doubt include Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, best-selling author Scott Turow, and Time Warner Chairman Richard Parsons, evangelist Jerry Falwell and noted trial practitioners, like Gerry Spence, Robert Bennett, and David Boies.