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Predatory Kill (Brent Marks Legal Thriller Series #2) Predatory Kill by Kenneth Eade
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“Most people, faced with two difficult choices, prefer not to choose at all.”
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“Some people don’t like lawyers, that is, until they need them”
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“The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace. -Mahatma Gandhi”
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“Well, banks are the biggest mafia, you know, except for the government of course.”
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“Litigation was war. A war that usually inflicted heavy casualties on both sides.”
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“Emotions are reserved for juries and, in that case, a good lawyer can really lay them on when the time is right, better than the best Academy Award winning actor”
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“Tentane Mutual’s policy was not to consider any loan modification unless the borrower was delinquent in their payments.  I told Mr. Marsh at the time that it may be easier for him to qualify for a loan modification than a refinance, because the qualification criteria was relaxed.  But it was his decision.”      “But you didn’t tell Mr. Marsh at that time that falling”
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“And you told Mr. Marsh at that time that a refinance was impossible, did you not?”      “I did.”      Every teacher of cross-examination points out that you never ask a question that you do not know the answer to, and you never ask the question “why” because that gives the witness the opportunity to answer in a narrative, but Brent wanted the jury to hear the answer to the next question in Bernstein’s own words, so he took the calculated risk.      “Why was it impossible?”      “Because Mr. Marsh was delinquent in his loan payments.”      “But Mr. Bernstein, didn’t you tell Mr. Marsh about six months earlier that, in order to qualify for a loan modification, he had to be delinquent in his loan payments?”      “That’s for a modification, not a refinance, and that was Tentane’s policy…”      “Object”
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“But Mr. Bernstein, didn’t you tell Mr. Marsh about six months earlier that, in order to qualify for a loan modification, he had to be delinquent in his loan payments?”      “That’s for a modification, not a refinance, and that”
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“defendants?”
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“doubt,”
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“The trouble with making an important decision was that you never had enough information to do it without hesitating. And it’s the hesitation that gnawed at you and never helped you to make the decision.”
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“If the human brain is really capable of having 60,000 to 80,000 thoughts per day, Brent was living proof, because he never stopped thinking.”
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“Unfortunately, violence has a way of overpowering even the strongest of wills”
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“Nothing is easy,” and, with respect to legal work, that was absolutely true.”
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“The rules of war for federal court were contained in the 86 rules of federal civil procedure, the rules of the local federal court, and the courtroom rules of the particular federal judge.”
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