"I think a great deal of Joel," said Cyrus Vance, Manhattan District Attorney during Seidemann's two biggest trial wins, in the Etan Patz murder and Brook Astor swindle cases.
"It's a sign, certainly, that the Manhattan DA's office is giving this their very highest priority," said veteran defense lawyer Ron Kuby.
One calls him "a firecracker." And they're hard-pressed to name anyone in the district attorney's office more capable of crushing a psych defense in a murder case.
"They didn't call for an ambulance. They didn't call for help. Rather, they stood on the street corner and laughed," he told a judge of the teen suspects in the fatal 2006 mugging of an NYU student.
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