Alan Dershowitz
speaker
787 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 16 Aug
Alan Dershowitz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And this was the perfect case to illustrate that.
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Well, I had a very large Harvard house back in the day with a basketball court in the backyard and a big yard and about I don't know ten rooms.
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And I would divide the team into rooms.
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This was the insulin room, um this was the room for search and seizure, this was the uh case uh where they found a case.
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So everybody was divided into a team and I
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I was kind of the the general, uh, and uh I would go from room to room asking them about their progress.
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They had paid for private prosecutors and private investigators, and had circumvented the strictures of the Constitution, and had done things that private people could do, but that public police and prosecutors could never do, withheld evidence, uh possibly planted evidence.
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And it sounded intriguing to me.
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If Klaus von Bulow had been a poor butler charged with putting his wife into two comas, he would be in jail today.
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There is no question in my mind that it took a lot of money uh paid to scientific experts particularly to be able to get justice in this case.
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This is a terrible commentary on the American system of justice.
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show that uh there was no insult.
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of course.
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Um I mean if there was nothing in the notes he would have of course turned them over.
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And once he said, I'm not turning over those notes, they're lawyer client privilege, they weren't lawyer uh client privilege and we were entitled to those notes and under the sixth amendment we're entitled to all exculpatory evidence and the court so ruled when we got the notes, we said, Eureka, you know, we now have we now have the the proof we needed and so
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Um, you know, it was a combination of using law and using science together.
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And um, you know, one reason why I was a successful teacher is because I brought the courtroom into the classroom.
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And one reason I was a successful litigator is I brought the classroom into the courtroom.
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And the Von Bullo case was a perfect example of both.
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I taught the case in class, I got student input from brilliant, brilliant Harvard students who gave me advice about how to handle it and do things, and I take the advice of students and we were able to use the classroom and bring it into the courtroom.
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