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Liberty Press announces the release of Danger Road: A true crime story of murder and redemption, by criminal defense lawyer and author John P. Contini. Contini was the trial lawyer who defended Gilbert Fernandez, Jr., the former Miami-Dade police officer once named, Miamis Meanest Cop. Danger Road is the riveting courtroom drama that recreates the true crime story of three drug dealers who were brutally murdered in 1983 on a lonely stretch of dirt road - ironically named Danger Road, in the Florida Everglades. Each victim had hoped this final drug deal in Hollywood, Florida would be their big retirement score. Instead, the drug dealers allegedly found themselves at the end of a gun wielded by Metro Dade officer Gilbert Fernandez, Jr., and eventually along Danger Road in Miamis Everglades. Fernandez, formerly known as a Mr. Florida bodybuilding champion, kick boxing champion and black-belt karate instructor, was also alleged to be the muscle for the mob in South Florida. He and his crew were not there to arrest the drug dealers that night, according to police - they were there to kill them and steal their nine kilos of cocaine.

About the Author

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John Patrick Contini is a former prosecutor and veteran South Florida criminal defense attorney since 1983. With over twenty years experience as a trial attorney, he appears in Federal Courts throughout the nation and Florida. He received his BA in 1979 from the University of Massachusetts and his Juris Doctor in 1982 from the New England School of Law. He is a frequent speaker at area schools, drug and alcohol rehabilitation facilities (i.e., Faith Farm), jails and prisons, juvenile boot camps, church youth groups, and radio/cable TV talk shows. He is a member of the Massachusetts Bar, the Florida Bar, the U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth and Eleventh Circuit, the United States District Court for the Southern and Middle Districts of Florida, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the Broward Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and the Association of Trial Lawyers of America.