32 Quotes by Robert Shapiro

I believe there are certainly racial problems in this country, and I believe that peaceful solutions can help bring the races together.

I'm a lawyer who, on occasion, represents celebrities.

I'd use it tomorrow in virtually every criminal and civil case on my desk.

He had too much to live for to honestly want to kill,

I was interested in getting courtroom experience. When I was a young lawyer, the only way I could get real courtroom experience was in the criminal law field.

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'm sure all jurors have tremendous hardships that would greatly be alleviated with the largess of this court and by any type of compensation.

The 5th Amendment guarantees that defendants can't face 'double jeopardy,' which means the government can't prosecute a person a second time for the same crime if the jury returns a verdict. Only if the jury doesn't reach a decision can prosecutors elect to retry the case.

To me, the Holocaust stands alone as the most horrible human event in modern civilization.