25 Quotes by Michael Schwartz

Three years into American involvement in Vietnam they were up to 500,000 troops in-country and there probably were already a million who had returned home.

She is nowhere near the monster everyone has made her out to be.

He's a conciliator. He's someone who gets people together,

It also happened to be an amazingly beautiful poster, that added to the piece. And the condition was pristine.

It does fulfill some sort of emotional need that they have to own these items.

My client has been in jail for 19 months. They so totally have the wrong guy.

When a defendant makes a request for a lawyer, all questioning must stop until a lawyer is on the scene. The fact that Shaw made two requests for a lawyer and was questioned for twenty minutes indicates a violation of his rights, assuming that is what really happened. My understanding is that Miranda does not legitimize a confession obtained by questioning a defendant who has repeatedly asked for a lawyer.

The reason we have the First Amendment is to protect people who say things other people don't like.

There is plenty of historical evidence to show courts are more than willing to believe the police over a black defendant. It is not the stuff of fiction; there is almost a presumption when dealing with police witnesses, that they must be telling the truth, and it makes the work of defending criminal defendants harder.