Stranger Than Fiction By: Richard Siracusa, Esq. When young students dream of becoming lawyers their imaginations conjure up thoughts of defending society’s least fortunate and the unjustly accused. Author Richard Siracusa has lived that dream, for better or worse, as a sole practitioner with the freedom to make his own mistakes. A rare occurrence in today’s institutionalized world, lawyers like Siracusa are a dead and dying breed—dinosaurs roaming the halls of justice, moving toward inevitable extinction. Stranger Than Fiction: A Criminal Defense Attorney’s Memoir, New York, New York is an anthology of the murder and mayhem that existed in the streets of New York City over the last thirty-five years of the twentieth century. His career features a series of strange and compelling stories, mostly taken from the twenty-six murder trials which he has tried to verdict. Why did he do it? Follow along as Richard Siracusa recounts his adventures.