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uentin Carter was 16 years
old when a jury found him
guilty of sexually assaulting
a 10-year-old girl in 1992. He spent
17 years in prison, insisting he was
innocent throughout his incarceration.
Although the appeal filed by attorney
Lawrence "Larry" Katz was unsuc-
cessful, the lawyer believed his client
had been wrongfully accused and
convicted.
Eventually, the victim, now a
34-year-old mother, came forward and
validated the theory Katz believed but
had been unable to prove: She was
assaulted by her mother's boyfriend,
who had coerced her into naming
Carter as the assailant.
But being right was small consola-
tion to Katz. "Where does the client go
to get his lost time back?" he asked.
As a criminal appellate attorney,
Katz represents clients who have
already been tried and found guilty of
crimes ranging from rape to premedi-
tated murder. One client is serving a
life sentence for attempted murder
after mailing a pipe bomb to his
estranged wife at work, causing severe
injuries requiring multiple surgeries
and extensive therapy.
"Lawyers don't defend criminal con-
duct — they defend the constitutional
rights of all people he said. "In an
appeal, you don't necessarily argue that
the person is innocent. You look at
what happened during the trial to see
if serious errors were made that might
have violated the client's constitutional
rights:'
Despite an increasingly negative
view of lawyers Katz has noticed over
the past few decades, he remains com-
mitted to the ideals that attracted him
to the law more than 40 years ago:
defending the constitutional rights that
protect everyone, without prejudice or
exception.
Katz remembers when defense law-
yers were expected to be zealous advo-
cates who fought valiantly to protect
the rights of their clients, no matter
how heinous the crime.
"People understood the role law-
yers played in protecting that person's
constitutional rights:' said Katz, 68, an
attorney and author who lives in West
Bloomfield with his wife of 42 years,

Larry Katz and his wife, Karen

Karen Tintori Katz, also an author.
"They didn't think of the lawyers as
actually approving of criminal con-
duct, or worse, as some kind of co-
conspirator.
"Everyone is protected by zealous
advocacy:' he said. "When a lawyer
defends the rights of the worst people,
he or she is fighting for the rights of
the best:"

Love Of Writing

Katz grew up in Northwest Detroit,
attending Mumford High and Wayne
State University, where he earned
his bachelor of arts and juris doctor
degrees.
As a boy, he developed a lasting
love of baseball attending games
with his father at Briggs (later called
Tiger) Stadium. He later combined
his passion for the game with his tal-
ent for writing in the book Baseball

in 1939: The Watershed Season of the
National Pastime, originally published
by McFarland in 1995 and reprinted
in 2012. He described interviewing
Detroit Tigers second baseman Charlie
Gehringer as "a thrill:' He has also
written numerous articles for legal
journals and publications as well as
the Sports Collectors Digest and The
Baseball Research Journal.
Katz was working as a reporter
for the college paper, The South End,
where he later became news editor,
when he met fellow reporter and jour-
nalism student Karen Tintori. Despite
her Italian-Catholic background, she