Feeling the Heat: An Interrogation of the Soul

by John P. Contini

Overview

What would cause a highly successful criminal defense lawyer to leave his steady stream of clients, his comfortable suburban home and his idyllic life with a wife of 11 years and three children… for a place
where he shared a modest apartment with 3 drug addicts? South Florida was getting too hot for the lawyer but that heat had little to do with the outside temperature. John Patrick Contini had to get out of town and he found the
perfect hiding place to cool off; Talbott Recovery Center in Atlanta, Georgia where he feigned an addiction so that he could fit in. A client of John's was doing the unthinkable… turning the tables on the man who had helped him
the most. Suddenly John comes face to face with a brand new person. Himself. Feeling the heat is a probing look into all of our addictions, belief systems and surprises we learn about ourselves.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780977317462
Publisher:	Liberty Press Publishing
Publication date:	11/17/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	239
File size:	548 KB

About the Author

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, John appears in Federal Courts throughout the nation
and Florida: Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, Palm Beach, Tampa and Orlando; Ft. Worth, TX; Charlotte, NC; Trenton, NJ; Pittsburgh, PA; Boston, MA; and Cleveland OH, to date. John received his B.A. in 1979 from the University of
MA and his Juris Doctor in 1982 from the New England School of Law.
"Being a good lawyer is not just about winning and it's not just about caring for people—it's both. I personally believe that it's no fun being a lawyer unless you can genuinely help people, and allow them to get on with their lives.
The question I am most often asked as a South Florida criminal defense attorney is: 'How can you defend someone when you know they are guilty?' For me, the answer is easy. I believe in condemning the act, not the person
(John 8:11). This principle is consistent with my Faith. In Matt. 9:12, Jesus essentially answers the same question this way: 'It's not the healthy who need a physician, but the sick. I desire mercy, not sacrifice… ' I
unapologetically enjoy helping someone who is otherwise shunned and condemned by others, and society."—John Patrick Contini
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 was privileged to speak at Faith
Deliverance Cathedral, Dr. Rorie; of Hollywood, FL and New Hope Ministries, Apostle Frank Lloyd, of Ft. Lauderdale, FL, as well as dozens more. John 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 * The Association of Trial Lawyers of America