Of 24 charges against him, federal prosecutors were able to nail down only a single charge: lying to the FBI. Blagojevich was accused, among other things, of trying to auction off President Barack Obama’s former U.S. Last year, the father-son duo represented Rod Blagojevich, the former Illinois governor, in his high-profile fraud and corruption trial. Kelly was facing prison on charges of having sex with a minor-counts based on a widely available video. In recent years the Chicago attorney, teaming up with his father-longtime criminal defense lawyer Samuel Forbes Adam-has turned heads inside and outside Chicago with his representation of some of the city’s most illustrious criminal defendants. If you believe it, you get instant credibility with the jury.”Īnd it’s working for him. But Samuel Eugene Adam-his friends call him Sasha-thinks that’s his job: acting. They think jurors won’t buy it, and their egos won’t let them go there.
Most lawyers are afraid of looking crass. You get them to see what you see, and the position you’re selling to them,” he says. “What a used car salesman has to do is talk in such a way and bring points in that someone doesn’t see with a used car. And all he cares about is what a jury thinks. But now he’s a defense lawyer, and a very good one. At one point he could see his life going in that direction. He did, after all, minor in acting at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. OK, call him an actor-or even a used car salesman-Sam Adam Jr. Photo of Samuel Eugene Adam, Jr., with father Samuel Forbes Adam, Sr., by Wayne Slezak
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