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I will defend anyone as long as the client gives me total control of the case and pays up front.

I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.

I think when you play a role, you always have to be a defense attorney for that character.

To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.

Lawyers claim that their clients have been grossly mistreated, which is what criminal defense lawyers are paid to do.

I think lawyers have a fidelity to the system itself that's always got to be with them, and indeed, most of the defense lawyers I know observe that.

Everybody has a right to be defended, and every lawyer has a duty to defend people accused. And my office is to defend him, to discuss the accusation point by point, as I think this is a normal step in a democracy.

I was a defense attorney before I was a prosecutor, and so knowing what the defense is going to try to do is something that you have to do constantly when you're in trial. I always went to trial knowing what they were doing. So I was always in both mindsets anyway. 'Oh, they're going to do this, then I'm going to do that.'

The lawyers who really begin to address the problems of their clients address them without recourse to our courts, although that recourse is absolutely essential in providing leverage.