Judgment & Mercy: The Turbulent Life and Times of the Judge Who Condemned the Rosenbergs

Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from Houston attorney Martin J. Siegel’s book Judgment & Mercy: The Turbulent Life and Times of the Judge Who Condemned the Rosenbergs. Please visit his website to learn more. Siegel will be in Dallas Saturday, July 29, to sign copies and discuss his book at 4 p.m at Interabang Books, 5600 W. Lovers Lane.   

On a freezing February morning in 1992, I left the tiny apartment I shared with an architect and his girlfriend near Washington Square and headed uptown. I was on a sad and surreal errand — my boss’s funeral. He was a federal appellate judge, on the bench for forty years, and for the past six months I’d been one of his two law clerks.