in the United States
. In 2008, he announced he would retire, at age 79, at the end of the Geoffrey Fieger
trial in Detroit, MI
. Spence states that he "has never lost a criminal case either as a prosecutor or a defense attorney. He has not lost a civil case since 1969." However, Spence lost a criminal case in a bench trial but prevailed on appeal (see below).
Spence graduated from the University of Wyoming Law School in 1952.
What the insurance companies have done is to reverse the business so that the public at large insures the insurance companies.
Everyone wants to argue. Everyone does. Everyone needs to.
Our prejudices — we all have them — are part of our personality structure. The problem is that our prejudices may lie lurking at the bottom of the subterranean mind where the slowly ooze up and color our thinking without our knowing it.
When you are faced with prejudice, logic and justice are impotent. Still, we may have an obligation to argue directly into the face of the prejudice, even though there is no chance to win.
The stain of prejudice is often indelible.
I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.