Andrew Cohen Lawyers Quotations

First he says he wants to die a martyr and now he is begging the jury to spare his life and telling the panel that his dedicated lawyers are out to get him. It doesn't add up and perhaps that's exactly what he has in mind.

Each time you go before a grand jury as a target or a subject or a person of interest ? or anyone else other than a plain old witness ? you put yourself in legal jeopardy. And now Rove will have done that five times. So today is not a good day for him no matter what his lawyers eventually decide to say about it.

So this is a case where Padilla loses the round in court but actually gains some measure of freedom. Padilla wins by losing. He gets out of military custody now and presumably into an environment in some jail somewhere where he will have more complete access to his lawyers and a better chance not just to see the allegations against him but to prepare his own defense.