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Thanks, guys!

Dan, my family has a history of gall bladder problems – he’s welcome to mine .

pooka, thank you so much for the kind words. One of the reasons I want to be a prosecutor is because it’s one of the few areas of litigation where you can refuse cases in which you think your side is not in the right (in fact, to some extent, you have to).

I want to be known as the guy defense attorneys want prosecuting when the defendant is some kid who messed up for the first time, is truly sorry, and does not want to see his life ruined. I also want to be the guy who makes defense attorneys say, “oh s---!” when they find out I’m prosecuting their client who hurt a child in some way.

Alan Dershowitz, someone with whom I disagree on many issues, wrote something which helped confirm my decision to be a prosecutor.

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Alan Dershowitz, Letters to a Young Lawyer, p. 150:
[T]here are few higher callings than an hones prosecutor with a real sense of justice. Such a prosecutor can have a greater impact on the criminal justice system than any defense lawyer or judge, since most prosecutorial decisions are highly discretionary. I tell my students that if they really want to be do-gooders in the criminal justice system, they should become prosecutors that care about justice.

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