Seymour Wishman is a legal expert, novelist, playwright, and nonfiction author. Wishman graduated from Rutgers School of Law in 1965 and went on to be an assistant prosecutor in Essex County, a criminal and civil rights lawyer in New York and New Jersey, and a deputy assistant to US President Carter in the Office of Public Liaison. In 1984, he became president of First Run Features. Wishman is the author of the memoir "Confessions of a Criminal Lawyer", the nonfiction title "Anatomy of a Jury", and the novel" Question of Consent. "He lives in New York City.