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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

who had grown up in the “Southie” neighborhood of Boston along with the notorious “Whitey” Bulger

which was the subject of the semi-functional

I never served as a prosecutor (though I advise my students who want to become defense attorneys to work in a good prosecutor’s office for a few years.) Also unlike some defense attorneys

but in Israel and Gaza as well. I stand ready to defend Israeli soldiers and commanders who have been falsely accused of killing Palestinian civilians in their efforts to protect Israeli civilians from terrorist rocket attacks. In 2011

the Colonel sent me an American flag that had been “flown for 9 minutes and 11 seconds over the 3rd Brigade Combat Team Head Quarters

cells and facilities belonging to terrorist groups.” How to distinguish such groups from non-combatants in the fog of asymmetric warfare

consulting with him on numerous projects involving criminal law

and the Senator ultimately pleaded guilty to a relatively minor offense.

which might require them to divulge personal matters

telling me that the Senator had been involved in a fatal automobile accident and asking me to make my way to Martha’s Vineyard—a place I had never visited. I was asked to become part of the legal team being assembled in anticipation of the....

even though all the principles are dead and the case is more than 40 years old. I was one of the lawyers involved in the Chappaquiddick case—the investigation of Senator Edward Kennedy for driving his car off a bridge on the Island (or peni...

South Carolina. I could not imagine a group that would be less sympathetic to a Hare Krishna guru accused of the horrendous crimes of which my client stood convicted. But my wife’s older cousin

a statement generally offensive to the religious sensitivities of typical jurors. More inflammatory was a statement by Swami comparing women to dogs and condoning lightly slapping one's wife for disciplinary reasons.”

1983. When community member Daniel Reid learned that St. Denis had raped Reid's wife