Closing argument can be a powerful tool to assist the jury in considering what are sometimes very different sides of a case. Below is Roy Black’s closing argument in the “Varsity Blues” Georgetown University bribery trial of Amin Khoury. To download a pdf of the closing argument below, click here.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS
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