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" Jurors want courtroom lawyers to have some compassion and be nice. "

Johnnie Cochran

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" If you commit perjury in a so-called first-degree murder case, and you're caught red-handed for the entire world to see, and you get only a $200 fine, what kind of message does that send about lying in our courts? "

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