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" Criminal cases require strategy, and prosecutors should attempt to prove only what can be proved. "
Strategy
Only
Criminal
" During my undergraduate training at UCLA, I was studying finance and securities; my particular interest was with mutual funds. Wanting to get into a high position at some of the companies that were doing that, I knew that law would be useful. "
Training
Finance
Studying
" F. Lee Bailey had been an inspiration to me. It was my desire to have him behind the scenes, to rely on his great wisdom and his brainpower, but I did not feel he should be in the courtroom. "
Desire
Wisdom
Me
" I believe there are certainly racial problems in this country, and I believe that peaceful solutions can help bring the races together. "
Peaceful
Problems
Believe
" I have no better way of judging guilt or innocence than anyone else. "
Way
Better
Judging
" I'm a lawyer who, on occasion, represents celebrities. "
Lawyer
Who
Celebrities
" In court, jurors are admonished by the judge at every recess not to discuss the case or form any opinions until the case is given to them for deliberations. Of course, there is no such limitation on the public. "
Opinions
Recess
Public
" I think that one of the motivating factors was in my last year of law school: we had a competition, and I won the competition; it was judged by several of the federal judges at the time. I got a tremendous amount of encouragement to pursue litigation from them at the time. "
Think
School
Law
" It's true that if you advise politicians on economic policy in the U.S. today, you spend your time in a cross between inquiry and combat. You are always on the periphery of harsh partisan warfare that has nothing to do with substance. "
You
Politicians
Today
" I've always kept my word, and my clients have always kept their word. "
Word
Always
Clients
" I was interested in getting courtroom experience. When I was a young lawyer, the only way I could get real courtroom experience was in the criminal law field. "
Lawyer
Way
Young
" Not only did we play the race card, we dealt it from the bottom of the deck. "
Only
Play
Race
" Our constitutionally-based criminal justice system places a high value on protecting the innocent. Among its central tenets is the idea that it is better to let a guilty person go free than to convict someone without evidence beyond a reasonable doubt. "
Innocent
Justice
Better
" The 5th Amendment guarantees that defendants can't face 'double jeopardy,' which means the government can't prosecute a person a second time for the same crime if the jury returns a verdict. Only if the jury doesn't reach a decision can prosecutors elect to retry the case. "
Face
Time
Government
" The Vietnam War was causing people to get drafted; I had received a deferment to finish my undergraduate education, and in order to continue to get a deferment, you had to go to graduate school. "
School
War
You
" To me, the Holocaust stands alone as the most horrible human event in modern civilization. "
Most
Alone
Holocaust
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