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When the Law Comes a Knockin'
In one of the most news-ready stories to break this week, a prominent New Jersey defense lawyer is accused of arranging hits on witnesses to assure favorable verdicts for his clients, many of whom were prominent gang members and other criminal types. This after being involved in a prostitution scandal earlier this month.
According to the story, found here in The New York Times, Paul Bergrin, the accused, was fond of saying, "No witnesses, no case," and is accused of leaking the names of witnesses to his clients, who promptly had them gunned down. Not only that, Bergrin is also accused of having attempted to orchestrate a hit himself.
The story has everything you'd expect to find in a John Grisham novel, or, more appropriately, an episode of The Wire. Speaking of which, there was a character on The Wire who did this very thing. I think he got away with it, however. In this case, does life imitate fiction, or the other way around?