As an attorney, Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Milton Hirsch once got a celebrity client acquitted for being “too stupid” to be guilty.
Then when Fox News television host Bill O’Reilly challenged him on air over the defense tactic, Hirsch famously told the combative commentator that if O’Reilly ever found himself in similar straits, “I promise to get you acquitted the same way.”
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