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…an 11, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Peggy Sicgal x wrote: Wrote this for the February issue of AVENUE Magazine. Thought it would amuse you. Tell me what you think of it. xoxo Peggy HD: Wall Street, Take Two DEK: In the upcoming sequel to Oliver Stone’s groundbreaking film, Gordon Gekko g...

…est Defense dealt with my earliest cases during the first decade of my professional life. Chutzpah covered my Jewish causes and cases. Reversal of Fortune and Reasonable Doubts each dealt with one specific case (Von Bulow and O.J. Simpson). I will try not to repeat what I wrot...

…ed Victor Botnick. He slipped and his leg got stuck under the gate and he broke it while trying to stand up. I was accused of deliberately breaking his leg and called into the principal’s office. My mother immediately came to school and spoke to me privately. I told her the s...

especially those involving defendants who could not afford an adequate defense and those with serious mental illnesses. He would ask his clerks to scour the records of cases—even those not assigned to him—for evidence of injustice. He told me that most indigent defendants—and m...

all the time. I defended other trouble-makers. I questioned everything and everybody. I may have had a Fifth Amendment right to “remain silent

the lead defense lawyer—William Kunstler—was held in contempt of court and sentenced to four years imprisonment. I was part of the legal team assembled to prepare the appeal of that contempt order. We won.

despite my earlier public statements that the evidence pointed to him as the killer. Among the reasons I took the case was that Simpson was facing the death penalty

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

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

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

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.

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

you attach the Jewish community to your action…I now find it hard to understand how you can mount a passionate defense for a convicted rapist.

…ding mixed signals (though I doubt it). It was a close case and Tyson was entitled to have his defense presented vigorously

who persisted in his description of the sexual encounter as rape. His fiancé called my colleague and asked her to advise him. She sought my assistance. We went to the police station where we observed the police interrogation of the young man. As experienced defense attorneys