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Character Analysis: A Disbarred Defense Lawyer

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A disbarred defense lawyer finds himself in a dirty hotel room with only a small pension to keep him in cigarettes and sandwiches. He got involved with some shady people he was defending and withheld evidence that allowed them to get off. When he was paid, he was arrested and a plea bargain allowed him to resign and never practice law agin. He was a pretty good lawyer up to the point until he was tempted by the money, and this is partly why he was allowed to collect his small pension. He misses law practice, because it's the only thing he's ever done. He's intelligent but street savy as well. He is a good judge of character and analyzes his observation of people and situations. He's now lived at the seedy hotel for 6 months and has a routine …show more content…

He throws the old microfilm news clipping chronicling the heist into the trash can in his room. He pours a drink and lays across the bed thinking that it feels he's fallen back into a hold he was almost out of. In the morning he wakes up with a little hangover and walks to the window as he does every morning that looks over the big dirty city. He stands this way for a while, when a clarity of thinking comes over him. 'It's as though I could see the whole city crystal clear, as though I could see right through the walls of this room. He reaches down into the trash and slowly unwrinkes the newspaper article of the heist he had balled up and tossed the night before.... He thinks with excitement... If I can't solve this puzzle, I'll pull it off …show more content…

This he suggests is one reason they could not be fingered. He knew from this that the guys he was looking for had to be no criminals. This will be difficult, he would really have lure them in and then judge whether they'd chicken out at the last minute, or worse, rat on the whole job. He believes that the guys involved didn't start out as acquaintances, but we're strangers that bonded together to pull off a heist. He figures that the whole thing was one man's idea, and he just recruited the 6 others, this one man would obviously now be himself, he felt convinced about these deductions, which made the undertaking easier. He thinks 'where do you find 6 professional criminals who never committed a crime. These would have to be men like himself, living on the fringes of life. Men who'd been given bad breaks, but had yet to take that step into the world of crime to make up the difference. The best place to start is the many pubs on the waterfront. This seemed a particularly good idea because under the influence of booze, guys are more truthful if as he muses, 'you know what to listen for', and what he was listening for was a guy would was saying, I'm so fed up, that I could commit a crime just to get even with life. Yet he knew he wasn't in the market for drunks. He wanted more than a common crook, he wanted guys that saw

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