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We move through time like a man in a rowboat, looking back even as we move forward.William Landay
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But sometimes you can't figure everything out because you can't ever really understand other people. You can't understand why they do what they do. You just have to accept a little mystery, Ben. People are mysterious, the world is mysterious. You can't know everything. You're not supposed to. This isn't a history book. It's just the world. It's a messy place.William Landay
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So I got on with the business of lawyering away at the evidence. Minimizing it. Defending Jacob.William Landay
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I did not speak. I have found in any Q&A, in court, in witness interviews, wherever, often the best thing you can do is wait, say nothing. The witness will want to fill the awkward silence. He will feel a vague compassion to keep talking, to prove he is not holding back, to prove he is smart and in the know, to earn your trust.William Landay
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I don't want you to say anything. I want you to listen. You know, being confident isn't the same as being right.William Landay
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This is an aspect of crime stories I never fully appreciated until I became one: it is so ruinously expensive to mount a defense that, innocent or guilty, the accusation is itself a devastating punishment. Every defendant pays a price.William Landay
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I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.William Landay
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Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.William Landay