Matt Graham
Matt Graham
Matt Graham is a native son of the San Fernando Valley. He attended California State University, Northridge, and Loyola School of Law before his ten-year career as a state prosecutor. His unlikely rise to the Los Angeles County Superior Court and later to the California Court of Appeal was shaped by a work ethic beginning as a boy growing up in Van Nuys.
By the age of 30, Graham successfully argued cases as a prosecutor in the California and the United States Supreme Court. Graham presided over approximately two hundred felony jury trials between 1985 and 2005. He authored over one thousand appellate decisions as a justice on the Court of Appeal.
Hidden Behind the Robe, Graham's first novel, is based on the stranger-than-fiction cases and events witnessed during his legal career. The award-winning and critically acclaimed Hidden Behind the Robe: A Courthouse Thriller, has a 4.6-star rating on Amazon.
Special Directives is the second novel in Graham's Van Nuys Courthouse House Legal Thriller Series. A progressive District Attorney is elected in Los Angeles, with controversial policies about the treatment of juvenile felons. The DA secures the prison release of a rapist who had been convicted as a juvenile. What could go wrong? Just about everything. With careers on the line and victims outraged, the supervising judge at the courthouse faces hard choices about how to address the DA's policies.
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Matt Graham is a native son of the San Fernando Valley. He attended California State University, Northridge, and Loyola School of Law before his ten-year career as a state prosecutor. His unlikely rise to the Los Angeles County Superior Court and later to the California Court of Appeal was shaped by a work ethic beginning as a boy growing up in Van Nuys.
By the age of 30, Graham successfully argued cases as a prosecutor in the California and...
Hidden Behind the Robe: A Courthouse Thriller
Hidden Behind the Robe is a tapestry of stranger-than-fiction scenes observed over Matt Graham’s forty-three year career in the criminal justice system. The story traverses the unexplored and overlooked inner workings of the raunchy, salacious, often hilarious, behind the scenes happenings of Los Angeles justice while taking you on a tour of...
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