Maybe so. I know firsthand, that if you're a white man who has has endured a racial assault in Manhattan, you need a lawyer TO DEFEND YOU from Morgenthau's ADAs. If a phony "eyewitness" lies to screw you, they'll take his word unquestioned, but if a perfectly righteous eyewitness comes forward independent of you, telling them the same story you did ... they'll ignore him.