A criminal trial is never about seeking justice for the victim. If it were, there could be only one verdict: guilty. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
I have made a career out of arguing that we shouldn't be criminalizing political differences. I've made a career out of arguing… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
In our criminal justice system, we say it's better for 10 guilty people to go free than for even one innocent person… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
In representing criminal defendants - especially guilty ones - it is often necessary to take the offensive against the government: to put… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
If you're a prosecutor, and you believe the defendant is guilty, you only talk about ultimate truth, but not intermediate truth. If… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
I think most defense attorneys honestly believe the principle that says, 'Better 10 guilty go free than even one possibly innocent person… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
A criminal trial is never about seeking justice for the victim. If it were, there could be only one verdict: guilty. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Our First Amendment expresses a far different calculus for regulating speech than for regulating nonexpressive conduct and that is as it should be. The… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it; also realizing it. Most lawyers are very successful,… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
I never had an existential moment when I asked myself what I was going to do. I always wanted to be a lawyer, and… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
It's a new phenomenon in America that states can now sue the national government and become a kind of check and balance on the… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
When it comes to partisan politics, everyone is a hypocrite. And all they care about is whether it hurts or helps them ... Is… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
