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yeah so over the course of my career
I’ve handled cases that involve
professional athletes CEOs White House
staff Congressional staff you know a lot
of people with a lot of things to lose
and with those folks high-profile
clients there’s a lot to protect in the
sense that they want to keep their name
out of the news as much as possible and
I’ve been successful at doing that by
sort of dodging calls and and things
like that um I don’t talk to the media
I’m not the story is never going to be
about me um I you know I want the story
to be if there’s going to be a story I
want it to be about my client and their
innocence so we’re we’re pretty good at
managing that messaging and minimizing
that messaging so that it’s not all over
the place because most of the time
people involved in situations like that
who are themselves high-profile just
want to stay out of the news and want to
deal with it privately there are some
cases however where perhaps the
defendant’s not high-profile but the
case itself is certainly we’ve had
plenty of those over the course of of
the years as well um and with situations
like that there’s no keeping it out of
the news because it’s it’s a it’s a
story of Interest again our strategy is
we don’t Stoke those Flames unless we
feel there’s a strategic reason to do so
if the Commonwealth is trying to you
know educate a jury pool as they might
like to say uh then we might have to
come back with some things but most of
the time again we understand the story
story is not about us we never want it
to be about us uh we want it to be about
the facts of the case and about our
client so you’re never going to see me
on you know CNN talking about a case
even if they ask uh it’s not going to
serve my client well and and and so
that’s how we handle these things as we
stay low profile even in high-profile
cases
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Manassas, VA criminal defense attorney Steve Duckett talks about how he handles high-profile cases.
