Some say that they have the flaws in their qualities. From Eric Dupond-Moretti, you could say that he has the qualities of his faults. The largest criminal lawyer of his generation also explains that to convince jurors, it is their own failings that must be addressed.
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The new Keeper of the Seals was born a criminal lawyer. Whole, stubborn, bad loser, violent verb, he knows by heart the human pettiness from which he does not escape any more than his contemporaries. Generous, funny, faithful in friendship, an unsurpassable speaker in his good days, he is less a theorist than a practitioner.
The murder of a maternal grandfather
Born in Maubeuge in April 1961, Éric Dupond-Moretti is the son of Elena Moretti, a cleaning lady from Italy, of Jean-Pierre Dupond, a factory worker in the North, and of two injustices: the murder of a maternal grandfather, which the police never investigated because "it was just a Rital" , and the death of his father, who died of cancer when his only son was only 4 years old .
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