Trials are too important to be left up to juries. ibid. Fitch to gun manufacturers
Never before has a jury found the gun industry liable for murder. ibid. television news
I’m in it to win. Just like you are. ’Cause that’s what I was hired to do. Everything else is coloured bubbles. ibid. Fitch to Rohr
You’re not going to change. Look around ya, I mean what’s going to change? Do you think it’s going to be any different next week, next month? It’s going to be the same goddamn thing. The Verdict 1982 starring Paul Newman & Charlotte Rampling & Jack Warden & James Mason & Milo O’Shea & Lindsay Crouse & Edward Binns & Julie Bovasso & Roxanne Hart & James Handy & Wesley Addy & Joe Seneca et al, director Sidney Lumet, Mickey
If I take the money, I’m lost. I’ll just be a rich ambulance chaser. I can’t do it. I can’t take it. ibid.
Sometimes people can surprise you. Sometimes they have a great capacity to hear the truth. ibid. Dr Thompson
Poker face. Just want you to look like an innocent person being falsely accused, OK? Last Chance Lawyer NYC I: War is Waged on Many Fronts, Howard Greenberg to client, BBC 2018
The public derides me as doing the devil’s work. ibid.
The presumption of innocence is a myth. ibid.
I don’t know what’s gotten into the Boopa today. ibid. of wife
Wanda: unlawfully firing police handgun … at date’s car … Wannda says she didn’t fire her gun … ibid.
Unconsciously, you’re trying to fill a hole in your soul, in your insides. You can never fill it. ibid. at toy remote control car shop
You might like to think that cases are decided on the facts: that notion is laughable. Last Chance Lawyer NYC II: Belief Trumps Everything
What kind of piece of shit are you? Paying us with a fraudulent fucking credit card? ibid.
‘He’s generous, he’s kind, he wants to help.’ ibid. Boopa
The murder charge could be dropped before trial if a grand jury believes Tiffany’s story is true. ibid. caption
The police routinely lie through their teeth and prosecutors routinely cover for them. ibid. Howard
They might be telling the truth, they might be lying, but it’s what I say to the jury that counts. ibid.
Tiffany will remain in jail to await trial for at least a year. ibid.
In 2014 two children were attacked by a stranger … ‘The defendant is just a patsy and we intend to prove it.’ Last Chance Lawyer NYC III: Mr Popular, Howard
I can’t read my writing from time to time. ibid.
Mikayla is the only eyewitness to the murder. But so far she has not identified the killer to police. ibid.
What was I thinking when I wrote cabbage? ibid.
The jury deliberates for 16 hours before reaching its verdict: Guilty … ‘Sometimes jurors are overthrown by emotion.’ ibid.
Slowing down is an impossibility. It can never happen. Last Chance Lawyer NYC IV: I’ll Rest When the Enemy Rests
They ought to legalise this shit [cannabis] and give it away. ibid.
I hate the fucking theatre anyway, so don’t take me. ibid.
‘This witch, this evil-doer, this monster, has no respect for the tradition of our constitution. None.’ RBG, opening opinion, 2018
‘She is anti-American.’ ibid.
‘To see somebody in her 80s become such an icon.’ ibid. journalist
‘What has become of me could happen only in America.’ ibid. RBG
Laws in Effect in 1970: Employers in most states can legally fire a woman for being pregnant; banks can require a woman applying for credit to have her husband co-sign; in 12 states, husbands cannot be prosecuted for raping their wives. ibid. caption
Califano v Goldfarb 1977: Ginsburg challenges federal law providing different survivor benefits to men and women. ibid.
I did see myself as a kind of kindergarten teacher in those days. ibid. RBG
In 2017 an 18 year old went public with allegations that shook the country. Anna Chambers polarised opinion and seemed to draw attention to an under-reported problem: police sex crime. For two years she turned down many interview offers. Abused by the Police? ***** BBC 2019
She was brought up in this working-class neighbourhood near Coney Island. The park where the alleged attack happened is just around the corner. ibid.
‘He pulled my head to his dick and just making me blow him … and just shoved it inside of me. I was just screaming … The black guy … was just looking in the mirror … like it was nothing … They just left me there.’ ibid.
Back home her dad sent her to hospital to do a rape test. A nurse alerted the police. ibid.
DNA was found on Anna’s body. A DNA test confirmed a positive match with the semen of NYD detectives Richard Hall and Eddie Martins. ibid.
After two weeks no arrests have been made. ibid.
‘The case of a women who says she was raped in the back of a police van is drawing attention to an apparent loop-hole in some state laws that may allow police to escape sexual assault charges by claiming sex acts were consensual.’ ibid. television news
One case in particular catches my attention: I found another case with a woman in Chicago. She says she was raped by two police officers after a night out drinking. It seems to have striking similarities to Anna Chambers. Two on duty police officers and a DNA match. ibid.
The investigation went on for three years … Eventually, the officers were offered a plea deal: they accepted one count of official misconduct in exchange for two years probation and dropping the sexual assault charges. ibid.
In 2016 more than a dozen Oakland police officers for sexual misconduct involving an under-age girl. ibid.
‘You run the risk of being exiled. They vandalised your car, your home. You may receive physical threats … We had cops who had 20 or 30 complaints against them for brutality, for stealing, for planting evidence, and nothing ever happens to them. And they’re not afraid; they’re not afraid of Internal Affairs … I can recall complaints where sex workers were coerced into performing sex acts on an officer to avoid going to jail. There were some sex workers who complained that officers harassed them. There were cases where sex workers were sexually assaulted, raped, robbed, and officers and detectives wouldn’t take their complaint seriously. Or would threaten them with jail.’ ibid. Internal affairs insider
I’m in the US where bounty hunters hunt down and capture fugitives who skip bail. Bounty hunters are unregulated operators, part of the $14 billion bail industry, that loans people money to get out of jail. The people they go after are the poorest of society. They don’t have money to bail themselves out. In America justice and making money go hand in hand. Stacey Dooley: Face to Face with the Bounty Hunters, BBC 2019
They will charge you 10-15% … The sell their services using anything. ibid.
In the UK we don’t put up money to get out of jail. All of the bounty hunters who work for Robert have completed Scott’s training – the bounty hunter’s boot camp. ibid.
In 17 states no training is required at all. ibid.
O how I love thy law! It is my meditation all the day.
I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.
Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.
I have longed for thy salvation, O Lord; and thy law is my delight. Psalms 119:97&163&165&174
My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.
Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart. Proverbs 3:1-3
He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination. Proverbs 28:9