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me another offer, during my second year in law school, which I also could not accept. He had been hired to go to Jerusalem to broadcast the trial of Adolf Eichmann, a job for which he was eminently suited, having been the Chief Prosecutor of Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg and also Chairman of the Federal Commun
de of my professional life. Chutzpah covered my Jewish causes and cases. Reversal of Fortune and Reasonable Doubts each dealt with one specific case (Von Bulow and O.J. Simpson). I will try not to repeat what I wrote in those books, though some overlap is inevitable. This more ambitious effort seeks to place
oducts of invironment.”] In law school, he wrote a letter to the Prime Minister of Israel...arguing that the death penalty was inappropriate even for Adolf Eichmann. Goldberg’s choice of Dershowitz to write his capital punishment opinion was no coincidence. Goldberg passed on the issue during his first year on t
him financially liable. My expertise in the science of disproving murder had been at the center of my earlier famous case involving Claus Von Bulow. Von Bulow’s original trial lawyers were not able effectively to challenge the prosecution’s evidence that Sonny Von Bulow’s coma was caused by an injection of
the crime did not carry the death penalty (Israel has abolished the death penalty except for the Nazi genocide against the Jewish people, under which Adolph Eichman was hanged), the case fit many of the criteria I generally consider in taking a case. But I decided not to take it. The reason was that it involved
or other First Amendment protections.) I never turn down a homicide case because it is too hard or because I am too unlikely to win. When I took the Von Bulow case, nearly everyone thought we had no chance of winning. New York Magazine, in an article about my involvement in the case, quoted “one of the coun
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Julie K. Brown
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Adolf Hitler
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Bill Clinton
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Hillary Clinton
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Joe Biden
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Michael Douglas
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Jerusalem
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John F. Kennedy
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Cynthia Nixon
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Alan Dershowitz
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Supreme Court
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Prince Charles
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William Shakespeare
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Michael Cohen
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Harvey Weinstein
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Stephen Hawking
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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