Robert Shapiro may refer to: (wikipedia)
the best evidence in this entire case of credibility of a witness.
Not only did we play the race card, we dealt it from the bottom of the deck.
He had too much to live for to honestly want to kill,
Our constitutionally-based criminal justice system places a high value on protecting the innocent. Among its central tenets is the idea that it is better to let a guilty person go free than to convict someone without evidence beyond a reasonable doubt.
F. Lee Bailey had been an inspiration to me. It was my desire to have him behind the scenes, to rely on his great wisdom and his brainpower, but I did not feel he should be in the courtroom.
In court, jurors are admonished by the judge at every recess not to discuss the case or form any opinions until the case is given to them for deliberations. Of course, there is no such limitation on the public.
I think that one of the motivating factors was in my last year of law school: we had a competition, and I won the competition; it was judged by several of the federal judges at the time. I got a tremendous amount of encouragement to pursue litigation from them at the time.
I believe there are certainly racial problems in this country, and I believe that peaceful solutions can help bring the races together.
Criminal cases require strategy, and prosecutors should attempt to prove only what can be proved.
Our tradition in this country has not been to deny health information to interested individuals when they claim that they can handle it and are willing to pay for the cost of getting it.