Alan M. Dershowitz: Want

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“The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.”

Alan M. Dershowitz

U.S. News & World Report (August 9, 1982)

“The prosecution… wants to make sure the process by which the evidence was obtained is not truthfully presented, because, as often as not, that process will raise questions.”

Alan M. Dershowitz

U.S. News & World Report (August 9, 1982)

“All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth.”

Alan M. Dershowitz

U.S. News & World Report (August 9, 1982)

“The judge also has a truth he wants to hide: He often hasn’t been completely candid in describing the facts or the law.”

Alan M. Dershowitz

U.S. News & World Report (August 9, 1982)

“There’s no question. My biggest enemies are the hard left. The hard left poses a far greater danger to the American future than the hard right. I’m not worried about a few dozen people with Swastikas who want to replace the Jews, because they’re our past. They have no resonance on the University campuses today. But the hard, hard left? Anti-Semitism, anti-Christianity, intolerance for speech, it’s the future. These are our leaders… And that’s why we have to worry much more about what’s going on, on university campuses, than in Charlottesville.”

Alan M. Dershowitz

Interview by Dennis Prager in No Safe Spaces 2019 documentary. Clip from film published on Feb 12, 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc86fPirz3A

“The prosecution is perfectly happy to have the truth of guilt come out but it, too, has a truth to hide: it wants to make sure the process by which the evidence was obtained is not truthfully presented, because, as often as not, that process will raise questions.”

Alan M. Dershowitz

U.S. News & World Report (August 9, 1982)

“We hope that the end result is a just verdict that is also truthful, even though all sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth.”

Alan M. Dershowitz

U.S. News & World Report (August 9, 1982)

“I began with the premise that, deep down, everybody wants to censor something. Human beings, no matter how committed to the principles of free speech, have deep-seated distrust of the open marketplace of ideas, especially when they themselves—or the groups to which they belong—are ‘victims’ of the excesses of free speech.”

Alan M. Dershowitz

Source: Shouting Fire: Civil liberties in a Turbulent Age (2002), p. 176