Gerry Spence was born in Wyoming on January 8, 1929. He graduated from the University of Wyoming Law School in 1952. He never lost a criminal case and has not lost a civil case since 1969. After he evaluated what was important to him, he founded Trial Lawyer's College, which trains young lawyers to beat corporate bigshots in the courtroom. He also founded Lawyers and Advocates for Wyoming, which specializes in public interest cases. He has written more than 15 books including Gunning for Justice, With Justice for None, From Freedom to Slavery, How to Argue and Win Every Time, The Making of a Country Lawyer, O.J.: The Last Word, A Boy's Summer, Bloodthirsty Bitches and Pious Pimps of Power, and Police State: How America's Cops Get Away with Murder. He also wrote Gerry Spence's Wyoming: The Landscape and the novel Half-Moon and Empty Stars.