Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies … - Harold H. Greene

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Harold H. Greene

Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.

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