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In Representing Criminal Defendants - Especially Guilty Ones - It Is Often Necessary To Take The Offensive Against The Government: To Put The Government On Trial For Its Misconduct. In Law, As In Sports, The Best Defense Is Often A Good Offense. The Courtroom Oath - To Tell The Truth, The Whole Truth And Nothing But The Truth - Is Applicable Only To Witnesses... Because The American Justice System Is Built On A Foundation Of Not Telling The Whole Entire Truth.

I Have Made A Career Out Of Arguing That We Shouldn't Be Criminalizing Political Differences. I've Made A Career Out Of Arguing That The Grand Jury Is An Abusive Institution. I Have Made A Career Out Of Arguing That We Shouldn't Stretch And Expand The Criminal Law. I'm Not Going To Change It Because You Think These Are Abnormal Times. When Thomas Jefferson Told The Justice Department That They Had To Prosecute Aaron Burr, And That He Was Going To Have The Chief Justice Impeached Unless He Found Aaron Burr Guilty, Those Were Special Times Too.

Doing Something Because God Has Said To Do It Does Not Make A Person Moral: It Merely Tells Us That Person Is A Prudential Believer, Akin To The Person Who Obeys The Command Of An All-powerful Secular King.

A Good Lawyer Knows How To Shut Up When He's Won His Case.

I Learn From Experience.