"I've never stabbed an adversary in the back.
When I go after them, it's always from the front.""Jurors
usually like me because they see how hard I fight for my clients."
"There are a thousand versions of a lie but only one version of
the truth."
"Let's face it, I'm very aggressive by nature; I guess my
courtroom style just comes naturally as a result of it."
"I know I'd be more popular if I were a nice guy, but it's what
makes me a good lawyer. I tell prospective jurors that I'm not a nice
guy."
"Listen, I didn't come here on the last bus from
Omaha."
About the race trials......"no
one bothered to say that I'd always had a very large black clientele, a lot
of whom offered me moral and physical support during these trials.
They knew that what I do is my job ---keep clients out of the goddamned
can."
"You don't create lowlifes. You simply
expose them for what they are."
"You form a special bond
with someone in a serious trial who ends up with an acquittal; a bond that
will always exist between you."
"I come from the street. My practice is in Brooklyn where
loyalty counts. But these cops and the prosecution are trying to put
my guy in the can for life for something he didn't do. It's my job to
keep them from succeeding."
"Clients don't come to me to cop pleas. They usually want
to go to trial. To stay out of jail."
"Aggressiveness is the essence of cross-examination. That was always
Murphy's Law."
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