Elliot Williams
speaker
443 appearances
4 recordings
4 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 26 Jun
Elliot Williams’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He had...
A alligator skin briefcase in each hand.
He's chauffeured in a Cadillac.
He smoked cigarettes.
He had represented many high profile members, I believe, of the Colombo crime family.
So he was a mob lawyer.
The defense's case was multifold.
I think the big part of it is, and Barry Slotnick says this in his opening statement, I am going to put these young men on trial.
And frankly, I don't think he called them young men.
It was thugs and hoodlums and savages and whatever else.
He framed it as a gang, a street gang that sought to terrorize, if not Bernard Goetz, whoever was the next unlucky victim of their vicious path.
They never said black.
They never said it, but they used language of savages, thugs, animals, monsters, hoodlums.
The defense was not shy about doing everything they possibly could to stoke the racial biases of the jury.
Giant 24 by 36 or whatever black and white posters of these four young men in which the young men just didn't look friendly.
For no reason.
Remember, these are victims.
These were not perpetrators or criminals.
This isn't evidence.
But every day when they walked in, these menacing looking photographs of these four young black men would be staring at the jury because they wanted the jury to see who these men were and draw their own conclusions from that.
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