Unquestionably, lawyers deep in the criminal process sometimes speak like the proverbial truck driver, construction worker, or the “boys” throwing one back Friday night after work.
No shock—the author is himself a foul mouth. F bombs? Way too often. Still, while hardly a defense, sometimes the use of curse words to make a point helps express a criminal litigator’s indignation better than anything. And indignation, for some, may be the lawyer’s best weapon in pitched battle with an adversary—when accomplishing justice as seen from either side of the divide may be at stake.
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