Ehrengraf for the Defense
“If the Sun and Moon should doubt, They’d immediately go out.”
—William Blake “Innocence,” said Martin Ehrengraf. “There’s the problem in a nutshell.”
“Innocence is a problem?”
The little lawyer glanced around the prison cell, then turned to regard his client. “Precisely,” he said. “If you weren’t innocent you wouldn’t be here.”
“Oh, really?” Grantham Beale smiled, and while it was worthy of inclusion in a toothpaste commercial, it was the first smile he’d managed since his conviction on first...-degree murder charges just two weeks and four days earlier. “Then you’re saying that innocent men go to prison while guilty men walk free.
Is that what you’re saying?”
“It happens that way more than you might care to believe,” Ehrengraf said softly. “But no, it is not what I am saying.”
“Oh?”
“I am not contrasting innocence and guilt, Mr. Beale. I know you are innocent of murder. That is almost beside the point. All clients of Martin Ehrengraf are innocent of the crimes with which they are charged, and this innocence always emerges in due course.MoreLess
—William Blake “Innocence,” said Martin Ehrengraf. “There’s the problem in a nutshell.”
“Innocence is a problem?”
The little lawyer glanced around the prison cell, then turned to regard his client. “Precisely,” he said. “If you weren’t innocent you wouldn’t be here.”
“Oh, really?” Grantham Beale smiled, and while it was worthy of inclusion in a toothpaste commercial, it was the first smile he’d managed since his conviction on first...-degree murder charges just two weeks and four days earlier. “Then you’re saying that innocent men go to prison while guilty men walk free.
Is that what you’re saying?”
“It happens that way more than you might care to believe,” Ehrengraf said softly. “But no, it is not what I am saying.”
“Oh?”
“I am not contrasting innocence and guilt, Mr. Beale. I know you are innocent of murder. That is almost beside the point. All clients of Martin Ehrengraf are innocent of the crimes with which they are charged, and this innocence always emerges in due course.MoreLess
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