{"id":8888,"date":"2025-07-28T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=8888"},"modified":"2025-07-24T10:46:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T14:46:46","slug":"a-great-lawyer-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/a-great-lawyer-passes\/","title":{"rendered":"A GREAT LAWYER PASSES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was saddened to learn that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/local\/obituaries\/article311144560.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Roy Black had passed away<\/a> a few days ago, at 80. I first met him in 1983 during a high-profile manslaughter case, the trial of Miami Police Officer Luis Alvarez. His autobiography, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4f32GId\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cBlack\u2019s Law<\/a>\u201d (not to be confused with Black\u2019s Law Dictionary which everyone should have anyway) focuses on the four cases he was proudest of. One was the Alvarez acquittal after a long and grueling trial, and another was the death penalty murder trial of Stephen Hicks.\u00a0 In both of them, Black and his co-counsel, the equally brilliant Mark Seiden, won acquittals.\u00a0 I was an expert witness for the defense in each of those trials and can tell you Roy told it exactly as they happened. Read tributes from his peers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/dailybusinessreview\/2024\/10\/14\/roy-black-79-taught-me-about-chatgpt-and-jury-magic\/?slreturn=20250724103712\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was saddened to learn that Roy Black had passed away a few days ago, at 80. I first met him in 1983 during a high-profile manslaughter case, the trial of Miami Police Officer Luis Alvarez. His autobiography, \u201cBlack\u2019s Law\u201d (not to be confused with Black\u2019s Law Dictionary which everyone should have anyway) focuses on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8888","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8888"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8891,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8888\/revisions\/8891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}