“Did you ever defend a client, knowing him to be guilty?”
“What, precisely, was your motive in doing so?”
“But in addition to your love of fair play had you not also the hope and assurance of a fee?”
“In defending a client known to you to be guilty did you declare your belief in his innocence?”
“Yes, I understand, but necessary as it may have been (in that it helped to defeat justice and earn your fee) was not your declaration a lie?”
“Do you believe it right to lie for the purpose of circumventing justice?—yes or no?”
“Do you believe it right to lie for personal gain—yes or no?”
“Then why did you do both?”
“A man who lies to beat the laws and fill his purse is—what?”
“In defending a murderer did you ever misrepresent the character, acts, motives and intentions of the man that he murdered—never mind the purpose and effect of such misrepresentation—yes or no?”