Lawyers Are Basically Really Successful Muggers

Successful closing argument plays on the jury's common sense and firm belief that lawyers are essentially crooks.

What sense does that make? What kind of robber only takes two-thirds of your money? Not even a lawyer does that.

Cheryl Coleman, attorney for Raheem Hines, a client who faced life in prison for a violent mugging. Coleman’s closing argument that Hines could not have committed the crime because he left the victim with money in pocket resulted in an acquittal.

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