Why Adrian Peterson's attorney rarely loses
Interesting info, there was more that I wanted to include in the post
Small town, big lawyer: Rusty Hardin gives Adrian Peterson major edge\
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For prosecutors, a plea deal avoids the possibility of Peterson being acquitted after Hardin puts on a show for his favorite kind of audience – a jury of his peers. Hardin says Peterson is a loving father who was disciplining his son in the same way Peterson was as a boy, and that any injuries were unintentional.
Hardin, 73, has won victories at trial for several famous clients, including former baseball pitcher Roger Clemens (perjury) and basketball Hall-of-Famer Calvin Murphy (molestation).
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"His greatest talent is clearly with juries," said attorney Richard Emery, a legal opponent of Hardin's in the Clemens case.
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If you change the barbecue sauce just slightly, Monroe almost tastes the same as Conroe. Both are small, predominantly white, southern towns with similar values, having cast 65 and 80 percent of their votes, respectively, for Republican candidate Mitt Romney in 2012. Monroe is about 25 miles from Charlotte, Conroe about 40 miles from Houston, where Hardin has worked for decades.
In small towns like these, Hardin says people grow up with a broader mix of people than they might in bigger cities, where people cluster in neighborhoods and schools of the same economic class.
That makes it easy for him to connect because he feels like he knows them.
In small towns, "you grow up generally in a less privileged environment, around average people, and that's who one day is on your jury," Hardin said. "I told people if I had any advantage in what I've done, is that I'm an average person. There are eons of lawyers brighter than me. I think one thing that has helped me is that because I am an average person of no more than average intelligence or ability, I think I hear things the way the average person does."
http://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/nfl/2014/11/03/adrian-peterson-felony-child-abuse-charge-rusty-hardin/18424029/