Errol Morris interviews mob lawyer Murray Richman - 1/3
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN recommends it as the best interview of Morris's series and as an insight into how the law and ordinary people's minds work.
What it is
Part one of Errol Morris's First Person interview with Murray Richman, a New York lawyer who defends mob figures. He talks about how he sees the law and his clients.
Recommended by 3 HN commenters across 3 different months, 2009 to 2012.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec rms · 2009-04 · on “Is high IQ as much a burden as a blessing?”
Errol Morris interview with the "smartest man in the world." Part 1: [LINK] Part 2: [LINK] Part 3: [LINK] (Good interview, but the best one Errol Morris did with his tv series was the one with the mob lawyer. [this video] And the movie Fog of War, of course.)
Recommends stfu · 2012-01 · on “Megaupload down, FBI Charges Seven With Online Piracy”
If you have half an hour left watch the following video: [this video] Errol Morris interviews the notorious NYC lawyer Murray Richman. In the end you will realize, that it is all about the "asshole" factor and very little about actual laws.
Recommends fleitz · 2012-08 · on “Jury foreman says Apple patents valid due to different processor architecture”
I don't think you can really jump to that conclusion. Prior art may have been 'ignored' but I have a feeling that the question in the minds of the jurors was 'Did Samsung copy apple?' I think that what's probably more at issue is that the vast majority of the populace regards copying as plagiarism / and/or something that ought to be punished. eg. copying = theft = bad = you should pay a fine. The jurors are just trying to stitch legal words and technical words together to create the impression that it was judged based on the law rather than the emotional feeling that copying is bad. The jury was probably looking for evidence to find for Apple, not examining the evidence to reach a conclusion