My defense in this case will not be technical or legalistic. It will be categorical and absolute.
Quotes about legalistic (5 Quotes)
Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the par
He's a very smart lawyer and he's giving legalistic answers that are probably accurate. He doesn't want to lie. But he's giving answers that under some legal analysis do tip his hand, and it's very bad news for women.
I'm sure there will be a lot of legalistic explanations pointing out that the president lied under oath, ... His (Livingston's) situation was not under oath. The bottom line, though, is that he still lied. He lied under a different oath, and that's the oath to his wife. So it's got to be taken seriously.
De Tocqueville talked about the legalistic bent of American culture but, whatever that was, it became accentuated in the latter part of the twentieth century.