James Forman Jr.
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358 appearances
1 recordings
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 29 Jun
James Forman Jr.’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The lawyer's job is to see the risks, is to push back at the person who's manifesting this good outcome.
And when the lawyer does that, the person who's manifesting can feel like, oh, they don't have faith in me.
They don't believe in me.
They think I'm not telling the truth.
Well, I got to surround myself by people who believe in me.
Like that's part of manifesting.
That's right.
I mean, we, you know, in my office, when somebody was getting ready to... When someone was deciding whether they were going to take a plea or go to trial, one of the things that we saw as part of our job was is to have somebody else from the office...
Come into the room.
We'd go to the jail if our client was locked up or in the office if they weren't.
And me as the lawyer, I would have the client tell their story.
I would do, in essence, the direct examination.
And then my colleague would do the cross-examination.
They would act like the prosecutor.
And they would be mean as they could be.
They would be the most hard-ass prosecutor that we knew in the office.
We didn't want any manifesting.
We wanted you to know that if you took the stand, that's what was going to happen.
You were going to have to be prepared to answer those questions, and it was going to be grueling.
And if you didn't have good answers—
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