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The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.

The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.

Alan Dershowitz
Jobs, Justice, Doe
"U.S. News & World Report", August 9, 1982.

Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice and they are also the most protected.

Alan Dershowitz
Justice, Judging, Links
"Newsweek" Magazine, February 20, 1978.

I will continue to fight for justice, fairness, and constitutional rights until my dying breath.

Alan Dershowitz
Fighting, Justice, Dying
Source: www.psychologytoday.com

In our criminal justice system, we say it's better for 10 guilty people to go free than for even one innocent person to be wrongly convicted.

Alan Dershowitz
People, Justice, Guilty
Source: www.psychologytoday.com

There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we see it.

Alan Dershowitz
Perfect, Justice, Ethics

Nobody wants justice.

Alan Dershowitz
Justice, Want
Alan M. Dershowitz (2011). “The Best Defense”, p.16, Vintage

Imagine a legal system in which lawyers were equated with the clients they defended and were condemned for representing controversial or despised clients.

Alan Dershowitz
Law, Justice, Legal System
Alan Dershowitz (2009). “Letters to a Young Lawer (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.44, ReadHowYouWant.com

I have made a career out of arguing that we shouldn't be criminalizing political differences. I've made a career out of arguing that the grand jury is an abusive institution. I have made a career out of arguing that we shouldn't stretch and expand the criminal law. I'm not going to change it because you think these are abnormal times. When Thomas Jefferson told the Justice Department that they had to prosecute Aaron Burr, and that he was going to have the chief justice impeached unless he found Aaron Burr guilty, those were special times too.

Alan Dershowitz
Thinking, Justice, Political
Source: www.wbur.org

This is not about celebrity justice, this is about the rights of the children.

Alan Dershowitz
Children, Rights, Justice

A criminal trial is never about seeking justice for the victim. If it were, there could be only one verdict: guilty.

Alan Dershowitz
Justice, Criminals, Trials
"Casey Anthony: The System Worked" by Alan Dershowitz, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 7, 2011.

If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice.

Alan Dershowitz
Numbers, Justice, Accountability
"Dershowitz: Torture could be justified". Interview with Wolf Blitzer, edition.cnn.com. March 4, 2003.

I never place limits on the potential success of my students. If they're going into acting, they're going to win the Oscar... If they're going into law, they're going to be chief justice.

Alan Dershowitz
Winning, Law, Justice

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