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Share It’s really not a secret: I have a pretty strong ‘anima‘ or feminine side. I don’t resent it. I think it’s made me a much more effective special victims prosecutor over the years. And in any event it’s who I am. My closest circle of male friends will readily confirm that I navigate those friendships [...] Share “Presumed Innocent” was perhaps the one book that led me more than any other into law school and prosecution. In it, Scott Turow describes “Brownian Movement,” the apparently random collision of particles in the air, resulting in a hum that children can sometimes hear before the bones of the inner-ear harden in puberty. Turow’s character, a [...] Share “Though we share so many secrets, there are some we never tell.” William Martin (Billy) Joel He called it “The Stranger” and titled a 1977 masterpiece after it. In my business we sometimes refer to it as the “third persona” with a nod to Jungian psychology. A persona is simply a mask, the figurative one we [...] Share Elizabeth “Lizzy” Seeberg passed to the next life on September 10, 2010, a little more than a year ago. I did not know her. Readers of this space, however, know that I was profoundly touched by her life, her death, her courage, and finally the courage of her parents as 9/10/10, for them, bled brutally [...] Share Last week, a high-powered Florida trial attorney named Roy Black penned a piece in Salon.com in which he argued for “modest reforms” in how sexual assault cases are charged and tried. Black successfully defended William Kennedy Smith in 1991, when he was a little younger than I am now. He has defended Rush Limbaugh, trans-national [...] |
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