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A Criminal Trial Is Never About Seeking Justice For The Victim. If It Were, There Could Be Only One Verdict: Guilty.

In Representing Criminal Defendants - Especially Guilty Ones - It Is Often Necessary To Take The Offensive Against The Government: To Put The Government On Trial For Its Misconduct. In Law, As In Sports, The Best Defense Is Often A Good Offense. The Courtroom Oath - To Tell The Truth, The Whole Truth And Nothing But The Truth - Is Applicable Only To Witnesses... Because The American Justice System Is Built On A Foundation Of Not Telling The Whole Entire Truth.

We All Learn In School That The Judicial, Legislative And Executive Branches Of Government Must Check And Balance Each Other. But Other Non State Institutions Must Participate In This Important System Of Checks And Balances As Well. These Checking Institutions Include The Academy, The Media, Religious Institutions And Ngos.

When The Jews Were Being Persecuted By The Nazis In 1944 We Passed The War Refugee Act, Which Focused On Rescuing Jews, A Religious Group. But If The Religious Group Is The Subject Of The Persecution Based On Their Religion, It's Perfectly Ok For A First Amendment-bound Society To Emphasize Their Rescue, Just As It Is Perfectly Ok To Emphasize The Fact That Many, If Not All Of The Perpetrators Of Islamic Terrorism, Come From Countries With A History Of Supporting Terrorism.

The Very Concept Of An Iranian University Is An Oxymoron. There Are No Free And Open Places Of Learning In That Repressive Theocracy. Dissenters Are Not Given Tenure; They Are Murdered, After First Being Tortured. Blasphemy, Which Is Broadly Defined, Is Punished. Gays Are Not Only Excluded From Iranian Universities, But Are Imprisoned And Killed.