And understandably so, that when you're in legal jeopardy, you really cannot put yourself in a position to open yourself up to the media.
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It's extremely damaging to a fair trial to have people reaching judgment about the case in the newspapers and on the radio before the facts are heard in a case.
I have a problem with the way the media deals with a lot of law enforcement issues.
When I was in jail I could only think about what the average person has to go through - the person who has no power to go to the press or no money to hire a lawyer.
If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public.
A journalist can make or break a case, in a way, because they can figure out things the police can't, or they can destroy people's lives.
Anyone, any type of story, it doesn't have to be a crime victim, you don't have to let yourself be food for the media.
It's fine to get paid and get a big verdict, but to go out and represent people, sometimes in unglamorous ways, is really what lawyering is all about.
I never, ever have seen media this way. It's almost indescribable. Making up stories, refusing to run real stories. It's making themselves look like utter fools. There's no journalism, there is no media. There's pure, full-fledged advocacy here.
And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.
I have been under assault by the liberal media in the United States.
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