Intellectual Challenges brought you in Legal Profession. Look at first case Samuel Leibowitz.
He was American Criminal Defense Attorney born in 1893.He used to win most of his criminal cases.
When he joined Bar, a Judge assigned a Criminal case to him to defend a poor accused.
Accused was a burglar. With a duplicate key, he entered in a locked house at night. A Beat Constable saw door of the house a little ajar. He got suspiscious. He entered house and caught burglar red handed.
The burglar was brought to police station where he admitted crime and he produced Duplicate Key from his pocket with which he had opened door of house.
Now the case was in Court. It looked hopeless to defend this burglar.
When the Beat Constable gave evidence, Samuel cross examined with following question :
"Did you ever ever try to see that the Duplicate Key produced by my client actually opened front door of the house?"
Beat Constable said he never tried to open door of house with duplicate key. He was not sure whether duplicate key actually opened the door.
The case was over. Confession made by accused in police station had no value in Court. And the fact that Burglar opened flat with key was not proved. Prosecution case failed. Burglar was acquitted.
The point I wish to stress is, you may not have joined legal profession only for money. It is these type intellectual challenges which may have attracted you to legal profession.
Haresh Raichura 13/12/16
