About the Author

Charles G. Douglas III was born in Abington, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Penn Charter School in Germantown in 1960. Two years later, he moved to New Hampshire, graduated from the University of New Hampshire and received his law degree from Boston University in 1968. He served as legal counsel to the governor from 1973 to 1974, when he became a judge on the Superior Court. In 1977, he became a justice on the New Hampshire Supreme Court, serving until 1985. Douglas is the author of two other books on evidence and family law and is a trial attorney in Concord, New Hampshire. He and his wife, Debra, live in Bow, New Hampshire, where they serve as publisher and editors of the Bow Times, the local newspaper with a circulation of 4,100.