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the other point i would make -- and everybodys kind of touched upon it here a little bit. lawyers are not portrayed, in many cases, particularly positively in the media. and a lot of that we bring upon ourselves. but i would also point out that, you know, we all operate in an environment where you have to deal with the cards that are out there. aties cuss finch -- atticus finch didnt have to deal with a 24-hour news cycle. tony serra didnt have to deal with bloggers in his career. i th...

[applause] >> my book is called "lust for justice" and the word lust imply a certain passion. i think that what is missing over the decades as i have lived is exactly what tony is saying. the dissident voice has become either silent or is yawning itself to sleep. and we can all do something about that. i wrote this book because i wanted tonys dissident voice to be heard. i wanted the art that i did of him showing his passion and his aliveness to be seen. i thought the two of them toget...

really. so youve got to figure out a way to make that interesting. we did a show called "scavenger hunt," a massive search through all the libraries. and its actually a very exciting show. but when we went to the network, they said, what are you shooting? we said were shooting an episode with seven libraries. and they were like, we got to cancel this. how did osborn get here? you know? thats the hard kind of stuff for television. id like to see more of that. i am so sick of "law & orde...

loud, and they demonstrated, chanted, boycotted tax. we have to wake up! were in a slumber because life is fat in the united states. and were willing to surrender constitutional rights for our own, you know, image of self-protection. and terrorism abounds. and isnt the police force, you know, wonderful to protect us? thats all era. and what we have to do is point at what is wrong and seek in every fashion or address it within the circle of your own ability to communicate. [applause] >>...

and its only as good as how the resources available to it can be used. and thats not an easy fix. thats a long-time issue. and i dont have a good answer for that attorney i am hopeful we can try in some manner to level the playing field a little more, at least so that the attorneys in my fictional world have it a little easier. but more important, you know, i have it easy. i write stories. we met the gentleman who is on death row for a long time. you hope at the very least you can avoi...

down to the criminal level, when you get down to people who are poor, frankly. you know? theres a strait fiction in the law that mirrors the whole society. anyway. i wanted to say that. ive worked on a bunch of television shows. ive thought about this question a lot. and i have no idea how this cycle works. but one of the shows that i really enjoyed was "l.a. law." the reason i liked "l.a. law" was that it was about the kind of business of law. you know? a lot of it was about the real,...

well start with you first, john. what would you improve? this is an imperfect society that we have. we know that. what can we do to improve it? >> gee. you know, i dont know anything about the criminal justice system. but i think you need to start out in, you know -- we need to have income redistribution in the country. i mean, its crazy. and if you do that, you know, in an important way, then a lot of these problems are just going to get fixed by themselves. theyre fundamentally econo...

level the playing field a little more, at least so that the attorneys in my fictional world have it a little easier. but more important, you know, i have it easy. i write stories. we met the gentleman who is on death row for a long time. you hope at the very least you can avoid serious, serious mistakes. and allocating the resources to make sure those mistakes dont happy think is a very important thing. >> my view, be more activistic, have more courage, where theres manifest, protest i...

are wonderful. every bit of that movie -- when you look at it, try to look, you know, into the actual scenes what theyre doing. its fascinating. its all shot on a sound stage. this movie is made at the same time that theyre making -- what was that huge thing in the sand? oh, "lawrence of arabia." right? [laughing] the same time theyre shooting "to kill a mockingbird." theyre doing it all on the sound stage. theres a reason for that. theyre doing it in black and white. you know how they...

self-protection. and terrorism abounds. and isnt the police force, you know, wonderful to protect us? thats all era. and what we have to do is point at what is wrong and seek in every fashion or address it within the circle of your own ability to communicate. [applause] >> my book is called "lust for justice" and the word lust imply a certain passion. i think that what is missing over the decades as i have lived is exactly what tony is saying. the dissident voice has become either sile...