Persistent effort and evident wrongdoing still fail to secure justice in court.

Evidence

Charles Nesson continues to teach at Harvard Law School, to lecture at judicial conferences, and to moderate seminars on law, government, and public policy. In the classroom he occasionally uses the Woburn case to illustrate a point. “I used to believe in the idea that justice would prevail if you worked hard enough at it,” he said recently. “I thought if judges saw cheating right in front of them, they’d do something about it. The Woburn case gave me a depressing dose of reality.” — , Harr Jonathan - A Civil Action, 3154

Categorization

• APHORISMS: A veteran litigator’s hard-won lesson: seeing cheating up close does not move judges to correct it.
• XREF: Connects to the earlier chapters’ theme of judge-controlled discovery and procedural maneuvering deciding the Woburn outcome.