Moman pruiett biography of michael jackson

A great act of preserving Oklahoma's early day legal history has been accomplished with the recent publication of Howard K. Berry's original 1940 manuscript of the life of lawyer Moman Pruiett. Titled "He Made it Safe to Murder" (Oklahoma Heritage Association, $29.95), the 700-page book details Pruiett's sordid, yet successful career as a frontier criminal defense attorney. Also interesting is the road down which the saga has traveled.

In the 1930s, the late Howard K. Berry was a young lawyer who became acquainted with Pruiett, who was phenomenally successful in his defense of those accused of crimes. In his first 20 years of defending the accused, Pruiett won 303 acquittals in 343 cases. His only client to be sentenced to death was spared by a presidential commutation.

Berry collected the tales and stories of Pruiett's cases and entered into a contract with a publisher before World War II. However, the publisher