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LARRY Pozner doesn’t have any illusions about his credentials as a pundit. “I’m a certified lightweight,” says the Denver-based criminal-defense lawyer and talking head for NBC, MSNBC, and CNBC. Until the last few years, Mr. Pozner concerned himself with defending little guys in trouble with the law. But now he has risen to at least minor TV prominence on a wave of high-profile criminal cases with a Colorado connection: the trial in Denver of Timothy McVeigh and fellow conspirator Terry Nichols, and the still-unsolved murder in Boulder of child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey.

Since January, Pozner has spent a fair amount of his time offering legal analysis of the Monica Lewinsky scandal (although an MSNBC executive says the network is careful not to use the S-word to describe President Clinton’s, uh, problem). Pozner brings to this task a certain point of view—perhaps not an outright pro-Clinton bias, but a clear anti-prosecutor perspective. Unlike a lot of defense attorneys, Pozner has no experience as a prosecutor. “Never,” he says. “Not a day in my life.” But his defense credentials are sterling; he is president-elect of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

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Byron York

Byron York is a former White House correspondent for National Review.

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LARRY Pozner doesn’t have any illusions about his credentials as a pundit. “I’m a certified lightweight,” says the Denver-based criminal-defense lawyer and talking head for NBC, MSNBC, and CNBC. Until the last few years, Mr. Pozner concerned himself with defending little guys in trouble with the law. But now he has risen to at least minor TV prominence on a wave of high-profile criminal cases with a Colorado connection: the trial in Denver of Timothy McVeigh and fellow conspirator Terry Nichols, and the still-unsolved murder in Boulder of child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey.

Since January, Pozner has spent a fair amount of his time offering legal analysis of the Monica Lewinsky scandal (although an MSNBC executive says the network is careful not to use the S-word to describe President Clinton’s, uh, problem). Pozner brings to this task a certain point of view—perhaps not an outright pro-Clinton bias, but a clear anti-prosecutor perspective. Unlike a lot of defense attorneys, Pozner has no experience as a prosecutor. “Never,” he says. “Not a day in my life.” But his defense credentials are sterling; he is president-elect of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.