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ley, Noam Chomsky, Rabbi Meyer Kahana, Rabbi Adan Steinzaltz, Justice Antonin Scalia, Ken Starr, Elie Wiesel, Vaclav Havel, Golda Meir, Red Auerbach, William Kunstler, Roy Cohn, Norman Mailer, Patrick Buchanan, Norman Podhoretz, Bill O’Reilley, Skip Gates, Alan Keyes, Dennis Prager, Jeremy Ben Ami, Mike Hukabee, Sh
earlier books that touch on aspects of my public life. The Best Defense dealt with my earliest cases during the first decade 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
on against the “Chicago 7” growing out of demonstrations during the 1968 Democratic Convention. After the trial of that case, the lead defense lawyer—William Kunstler—was held in contempt of court and sentenced to four years imprisonment. I was part of the legal team assembled to prepare the appeal of that contempt
ded that the only reason he wasn’t in court was because my client had murdered him. Our argument, they claimed, paralleled the classic definition of “Chutzpah”: the young man who murders his parents and then demands mercy from the court on the ground that he is an orphan. But the conclusions that Murphy had
d Richard Falk of Princeton were claiming that the United States was the worst human rights violator in the world.'°° Some hard left lawyers, such as William Kunstler, refused to say anything critical of the human rights records of the Soviet Union, China, Cuba or other “socialist” countries, while railing against
t in lieu of the third movement of Tchaikovsky’s Fifth. He told me that its always good to have the recorded statement in the °8 [cite Best Defense, Chutzpah, articles] 324 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017411 4.2.12 WC: 191694 middle of the music, because Soviet authorities tend to listen to the beginning and end o
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