In the Hands of the People The Trial Jury's Origins, Triumphs, Troubles, and Future in American Democracy

William L. Dwyer, widely recognized as one of the nation's foremost trial judges, was appointed U.S. district judge in 1987. His notable cases ranged from the one that brought the Seattle Mariners into existence to the ban against logging in Federal forests that saved the spotted owl from extinction to the conviction of the "Tylenol killer." Judge Dwyer, who lived with his wife Vasiliki in Seattle, Washington, died in February 2002Dwyer, William L. is the author of 'In the Hands of the People The Trial Jury's Origins, Triumphs, Troubles, and Future in American Democracy', published 2004 under ISBN 9780312330941 and ISBN 0312330944.