Felony Murder Rule Quotes

“trials are theatrical productions where casting, costumes, and script are critically important. It also helps to have a superstar playing the lead.”
― Sheldon Siegel, Felony Murder Rule

“In plain English, the two elements are a criminal act and a criminal intent. You need both to find a defendant guilty.”
― Sheldon Siegel, Felony Murder Rule

“That stuff is nice, too, but our job is to find holes in the prosecution’s case and cast doubt on the credibility of their witnesses. Then we let the jury decide.” “Have you always been this cynical?” “Ask your aunt. I’m just a humble pawn playing in an imperfect legal system.”
― Sheldon Siegel, Felony Murder Rule

“When he died penniless in 1880, more than 30,000 people lined Market Street for his funeral procession. In the 1890s, the gauntlet passed to Mayor Adolph Sutro, who used his fortune from the Comstock Lode silver mine to build monuments to himself, including the Sutro Baths, an indoor swimming complex next to the Cliff House that was more elaborate than the fantasy pools in Hawaii. The Baths closed when I was a kid, but you can still see the ruins. Over the decades, other luminaries included beat poets Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, a stripper named Carol Doda who headlined the city’s first topless club a few blocks from where we were sitting, and a high-end madam named Sally Stanford who became a restauranteur and later the Mayor of Sausalito. The list would not be complete without mentioning flamboyant lawyers like Melvin Belli, Jake Ehrlich, Vincent Hallinan, Tony Serra, and Nate Cohn. Nick “the Dick” was one of San Francisco’s few”
― Sheldon Siegel, Felony Murder Rule