The defense attorney's job is to ensure the jury doesn't arrive at the right verdict for the wrong reasons.
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.
It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.