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merely the methods used to catch him…Dershowitz enjoys a wide reputation as a last resort for convicted criminals

rather than because [I] had any real sense that justice in some way had gone astray.”

nearly everyone thought we had no chance of winning. New York Magazine

thereby enabling the tampering to be accomplished. Finally

and the recording at issue in the Kuchma case had been digital. Changes on a digital recording are much more difficult to detect than on a tape recording. It was our job to demonstrate that the Kuchma recording

for my wife or for my brother (who made a separate visit with his wife). It was especially difficult for his late wife Marilyn

since my family—including many who were murdered during the Holocaust—came from areas not too far from Kiev. I wanted to visit Babi Yar

morally or historically guilty of Becket’s murder. In 2011

the Archbishop of Canterbury. Unwilling to bloody his own hands

as do all the other possible victims of what my clients may have done. Nobody ever said it would be easy to be a criminal defense lawyer

an elderly woman approached me. “You did a fine job

she reloaded and emptied it again into his body. She was found guilty of premeditated murder and asked me to try to get the conviction reversed or reduced to manslaughter.

I happened to run into Yoko Ono at an art auction. I told her how sad I was that we had won the deportation case

and all of our mutual friends and associates

with the case over and my client entirely victorious. He was right. In one sense I was responsible: I had devised the novel legal strategy that resulted in the release of guilty defendants whose crime had caused the death of an innocent you...

a Jewish impresario who brought musicians to the United States from the Soviet Union—went awry and a young Jewish woman named Iris Kones died from inhaling smoke from a bomb that was intended to disrupt but not to kill. Because the bomb was...

he faced a possible death sentence. I had no idea that he was informing against his colleagues in the Jewish Defense League at the same time that he was making bombs for them. Informers are a peculiar lot

except to describe how it feels to win a case on behalf of an admittedly guilty defendant. Not only did he go free as the result of our legal arguments

since the very fact of his guilt was an essential element of his defense. The case was a strange one from beginning to end. Not only was my client guilty of having participated in a crime that resulted in the death of a young woman

I obtain a working knowledge—always subject to reevaluation based on new evidence—of what may have occurred