"Greatest Closing Arguments In Modern Law Michael S Lief, H. Mitchell Caldwell,
Ben Bycel ... a punishment, no matter what the offense, great or small, it thinks of
only one punishment, and that is death. ... there is not a state's attorney in Illinois
who could not have consented at once to a plea of guilty and a punishment in the
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"Anyone who's ever watched Perry Mason knows that the closing argument is a very important part of a big legal case. The closing argument is the "game point" of law, the time when lawyers pull out all the stops on the cajoling and the litigating. Michael S. Lief and his coauthors have collected the closing arguments from 10 noteworthy cases in this volume, introducing each speech with background information on the trial and comment ..."