Norm Crosby Quotes

The criminal defense attorney is misunderstood if not despised by most of society. It doesn't matter if we believe in our adversarial system and the ideal that everyone charged with a crime is entitled to a vigorous defense. Ideals give away to reality - defense lawyers working loopholes and angles to get their clients off.

I am not afraid of lawyers as I used to be. They are lambs in wolves' clothing.

I got interested in the justice system. If I was, I'd probably be a defense lawyer. I was headed that way, but luckily changed my track to film school.

There's only so much you can do with an attorney on a show that's about New York policemen.

I'd like to professionally... continue my education and hopefully become an attorney. I think that's the best way to stop the miscarriage of justice that happened to me from happening to somebody else. I don't think it should ever happen to anyone ever again - not one person.

All my life I have been under investigation.... I will just have to hire 200 more lawyers to keep me out of jail.

The law will argue anything, with anybody who will pay the law for the use of its brains and its time.

God forbid that the defendant should not be allowed the benefit of every advantage he is entitled to by law.

A lawyer wants to get his client off the hook. And even if he knows the client is guilty, he is going to find ways and means of getting him off the hook.

At the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey, I worked as an Outreach and Re-entry Coordinator and an Assistant U.S. Attorney. I have seen the best of our law enforcement community and the commitment that they have made to the public's safety. But I've also seen too many examples of where our system falls desperately short.

My father was an attorney in the state of New York, which is where I came up with the term 'advocate.'

As attorney general I see my role as defender both of press freedom and of the fair administration of justice.

I know two types of law because I know two types of men, those who are with us and those who are against us.

Law practice is the exact opposite of sex:even when it's good, it's bad.

The case has been going on for so long that I've forgotten whether I'm really innocent or guilty.

Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.

But the mere truth won't do. You must have a lawyer.

A lawyer is just like an attack dog, only without a conscience.

Necessity knows no law; I know some attorneys of the same.

The law is a system that protects everybody who can afford to hire a good lawyer.

I get paid for seeing that my clients have every break the law allows. I have knowingly defended a number of guilty men. But the guilty never escape unscathed. My fees are sufficient punishment for anyone.

Most lawyers who win a case advise their clients, "We have won," and when justice has frowned upon their cause ... "You have lost.

Don't mess with me, man, I'm a lawyer!

Remember the attorney general is not a member of the president's staff. He's the attorney general of the United States. He's there to represent all of us, and it means all the laws have to be enforced fairly. And you can't bring your individual prejudices in there.