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It’s just like everything else in life—you follow the money and it always takes you to where you need to go.
Most hotshot lawyers ignore court staff that they would call the “little people.” They did so at their peril and at their cost. Most of the time, the little people were, in fact, the best people.
My dad told me you can’t con an honest man, but the hard part was getting the dishonest mark to trust you. Good fraud was all about trust.
I wipe the floor with this guy, you’ve got to give me a shot at Benny. I’ll do whatever it takes to save my daughter. She’s my world, my life, and I’ll go to jail to protect her. But I’m not relishing spending the rest of my life in an eight-by-six. Give me a shot at Benny. Let me cross-examine him, and if it doesn’t go well, I’ll press that button and blow him to hell myself.”
The first rule of the hustler’s bible—give the people what they want.
Arnold knew precisely what they talked about because Arnold was a gifted lip-reader.
The truth has no place in a courtroom. The only thing that matters is what the prosecution can prove.
absolutely everything, should be a statement, not a question. They say good lawyers never ask a question unless they already know the answer. This is true, but it’s not because lawyers have any greater knowledge than anyone else. It’s because we give you the answer we want in the question.
