Hardly anyone commits three felonies a day. Harvey Silverglate is a defense attorney, and quite a good one, but you need to do your own research on any story he tells you because he only ever presents his client's side of the argument - which is very often what people like yourself want to hear. Every time I have gone to look up one of the cases and read through the legal appeals and the facts established at trial, the story turns out to be very different from the way he tells it. He'll talk about the feds coming in heavy-handedly to enforce some environmental regulation, for example, while omitting to mention that this client received repeated warnings and threats of legal action over a period of years in relation to the regulatory breach. I think he gives defense lawyers a bad name because while those hardball tactics are entirely justifiable in court (where the government has its own attorneys to refute his arguments and must provide evidence to back up their own allegations), using those same tactics in the sphere of public discussion borders on deception.