John D. (Jack) Montgomery, Q.C. was a former Chief Prosecutor for the City of Winnipeg; Provincial Director of Criminal Prosecutions; and a General Counsel in Manitoba’s Department of Justice. His three books cover major criminal trials that he prosecuted: She Was Only Three: The Trials of John Thomas James Jr. (1998) and Trials & Errors: The People vs Brian Gordon Jack (2001), and Beyond Redemption: The People vs Lucas and Bender (2004). John D. Montgomery died in 2004.