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DERSHOWITZ LIVE! EPSTEIN FILES WITH ALAN DERSHOWITZ | AU 594

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Dershowitz wants every Epstein file released except the names of minors.

1. Shaun Attwood's True Crime Podcast episode AU 594 centers on Alan Dershowitz and the Epstein files, with Dershowitz answering viewer questions live. 2. Alan Dershowitz appears as the guest, and Shaun Attwood frames him as someone involved in famous cases over several decades. 3. The episode asks what happened in Dershowitz's legal career and how he sees the Epstein-related fallout, impeachment coverage, and criminal justice issues. 4. Dershowitz says he was "born to be a lawyer" because he argued with rabbis at Yeshiva Elementary School and stayed skeptical of claims. 5. He says his parents were not professionals, his father did not finish high school, and his mother left City College during the Depression to earn "$13 a week." 6. He says Brooklyn College, Yale Law School, and two clerkships set him up to become a criminal defense lawyer and professor. 7. Dershowitz says he started practicing law in 1964 and by the late 1960s had already argued in the Supreme Court of the United States and several circuit courts. 8. He says early work included First Amendment cases, anti-draft protests, Vietnam War protest defendants, and both Palestinian and Jewish protesters. 9. He describes his first major cases as John Lucido's partnership-discrimination suit at Cravath, Swain & Moore and a Jewish Defense League bombing case. 10. He also names Harry Reems from Deep Throat as another high-profile client from that period. 11. Dershowitz says he measures success in criminal defense by doing the best possible job for the client, even when public opinion is against the client. 12. He says he slept badly after losing Mike Tyson's appeal because he believed Tyson was innocent in the Desiree Washington case. 13. He says Tyson served in a juvenile facility for a little less than two years and that the conviction damaged Tyson's career. 14. On wealth and justice, Dershowitz says rich defendants can hire good lawyers but also become targets because prosecutors gain from convicting them. 15. He says civil asset forfeiture takes money without real due process and is often used as leverage in criminal cases. 16. He says the O.J. Simpson defense was a "nightmare team," that he urged Simpson not to testify, and that he thought the criminal verdict was right because the jury had reasonable doubt. 17. On Epstein, Dershowitz says he knew Epstein only before Epstein finished serving a sentence and that later association with Epstein became a form of "McCarthyism." 18. He says Ghislaine Maxwell should have her sentence commuted, minors should remain protected, and adult accusers who lied should be investigated. 19. The conversation is long, combative, and question-driven, with Dershowitz interrupting himself, repeating key points, and using examples from Brooklyn, Yale, Indiana, Florida, and Martha's Vineyard. 20. Listeners who follow criminal defense, Epstein-related legal history, or Supreme Court arguments may want the full episode, while listeners who want a neutral recap of legal doctrine only may skip it.

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