Total_Package27 asks: “What is it like to defend someone who, in the eyes of the public, is guilty?”
Alan Dershowitz, O.J. Simpson lawyer.
“That's my job. If the public ever believed somebody to be innocent, I probably wouldn't take the case. A good lawyer should want to take the hardest cases, the most unpopular defendants, and the least likely to succeed. Just as a good surgeon would more likely take a difficult operation, rather than a nose job. Statistically, most of my clients are guilty. Statistically, most people charged with crimes in America, are guilty. And thank God for that. Would we want to live in a country where most people charged are innocent? That might be true in Libya, or China, but not here.”
America has more lawyers per citizen than any other nation in the world. America has more people behind bars than any other nation in the world. Lawyers are one of the highest paid professionals in America and anyone who has watched public trials knows that money can and often does buy the judgments that come out of American courtrooms. Alan defended O.J. Simpson and Richard North Patterson defends Israel as both move in the moneyed circles beyond the reach of average Americans and beyond the reach of justice.
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