(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Early in my career as a prosecutor, I learned a valuable lesson from a seasoned and highly regarded criminal defense attorney. The best defense in a trial before a jury is to attack the case that the prosecution doesn’t make. Fight on the ground that the prosecution has looked past or ignored. If the prosecution tries to “circle back” and cover that ground, the defense becomes about what the prosecution missed — or better yet, what didn’t they want the jury to know when they chose to ignore it in the first instance. Now, as a criminal defense attor...