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Quotes from U.S. News & World Report — Alan Dershowitz

born 1938 United States

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The judge also has a truth he wants to hide: He often hasn't been completely candid in describing the facts or the law.

U.S. News & World Report (1982)

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.

U.S. News & World Report (1982)

We hope that the end result is a just verdict that is also truthful, even though all sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth.

U.S. News & World Report (1982)

The prosecution is perfectly happy to have the truth of guilt come out but it, too, has a truth to hide: it wants to make sure the process by which the evidence was obtained is not truthfully presented, because, as often as not, that process will raise questions.

U.S. News & World Report (1982)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alan Dershowitz (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.