Denver lawyer Harry MacLean is a labor arbitrator and mediator, but he’s better known as a best-selling author of true crime books. He’s just come out with his latest book, “The Past Is Never Dead,” which discusses the 2007 murder trial of James Ford Seale in Mississippi. Seale was convicted in the 1964 murder of two black men in a “Mississippi Burning”-type case. MacLean, a 1967 University of Denver College of Law graduate and former Colorado assistant attorney general, won the Edgar award for his 1988 book “In Broad Daylight.”

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