1–What is the title of your latest release? THE PLINKO BOUNCE   2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? There are rare occasions when the legal system operates exactly as it should and everyone involved does quality work—there’s no corruption or fraud or wicked villain pulling strings—but yet the outcome doesn’t track the objective truth.  The most obvious examples:  A guilty defendant walks free or an innocent defendant is found guilty.  During nearly three decades as a judge, I experienced a tiny number of these unicorn aberrations where the Constitution or a particular statute limited the information a jury received at trial, and we wound up with a flawed verdict.  How we deal with these mistakes both inside and outside the courtroom makes for good fiction.   3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? I live in Patrick County, Virginia, where the book is set.   4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? Yes.  And I hope he’d like to hang out with me.  He’s a good guy.   5–What are three words that describe your protagonist? Smart, principled, and weary.  He’s a single dad and a public defender with a huge caseload….