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Errol Morris interviews mob lawyer Murray Richman - 1/3

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.

Why HN readers recommended 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.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Melchi
Topic
criminal defense lawyers
Format
interview
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
3
HN mentions in dataset
3
Recommendation years in dataset
2009–2012

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • 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. [VIDEO] And the movie Fog of …

    rms on Hacker News · 2009-04
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  • If you have half an hour left watch the following video: [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.

    stfu on Hacker News · 2012-01
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  • 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 …

    fleitz on Hacker News · 2012-08
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