About the Author
Constance Emerson Crooker is a bilingual criminal defense lawyer with over 23 years of experience defending Spanish-speaking clients. A longtime Oregon resident, she graduated from Reed College and went on to Northwestern School of Law at Lewis & Clark College, earning her doctor of jurisprudence degree in 1977. She wrote "Interpreters," a chapter of a legal book published by the Oregon State Bar Association, and she has written for many legal and non-legal publications. She speaks frequently at legal seminars on the subjects of court interpretation and cross-cultural communication. Presently, she is under contract with Greenwood Publishing Group to write a book on both sides of the controversial topic of gun control.
