Giuseppe Conte Quotes

I will be the defence lawyer of the Italian people.

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.

My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area.

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 actually was a defense attorney first.

As a lawyer, particularly in criminal law, you really do have to try to tell your story to the jury and hope that the judge makes rulings that allows your story to get through.

I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a client than I ever have as a D.A. in obtaining a conviction. All my interests and sympathies tend to be on the side of the individual as opposed to the state.

When I was a prosecutor in San Francisco I would get advice on trying cases from public defenders and defense attorneys.

Lawyers claim that their clients have been grossly mistreated, which is what criminal defense lawyers are paid to do.

There are a whole variety of reasons I want to be attorney general, a whole variety of things that I do as attorney general that go beyond national security.

Before I became Attorney General, I won’t say that I stayed up at night worrying about civil rights

The role of the defense is to be an advocate for their client, regardless of whether he did it or not, within the bounds of the law.

My job is all about defending the people that I play.

Your job as a trial attorney is to try to convey to the jury the essence of the people you represent.

As attorney general of Missouri, I am my state's chief law enforcement officer. I swore an oath to uphold the rule of law, and that means fighting violence and oppression wherever it exists, especially violence against the poor and vulnerable.

I was a defense attorney before I was a prosecutor, and so knowing what the defense is going to try to do is something that you have to do constantly when you're in trial. I always went to trial knowing what they were doing. So I was always in both mindsets anyway. 'Oh, they're going to do this, then I'm going to do that.'

Being a public defender makes you incredibly paranoid - and I would say with reason - about law enforcement.

As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.

I've become very fond of the law. I've always been an advocate for justice, which occasionally the law brings to light.

I was a crown attorney in my home town in Nova Scotia, and I learned that victims of crime needed better laws to better protect them. I saw politics as a means to improve this protection for them.

Ask any experienced defense lawyer: the real risks are for an accused person who is innocent. A guilty defendant has many more options available.

Since the Puffy Combs case in New York, I will not try any more criminal cases.

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

The Attorney General's ultimate client must be the people of the United States

The first thing a good lawyer does is immediately presume the guilt of his client.