Awww...since when does the law not apply to certain people?
...Since the simplest concept of bribery had been first used.
...With that, since money first invented and more importantly seen as the measure of how "well" a human being had turned out. This plus bribery equals some part of your answer.
...Also since knowing few people in high places, law or whatnot can be bent as easily as you flip and flap the Benjamins.
...Charm would not hurt at all. A nice or a rehearsed choice of words is really a deciding factor on how a lie is heard.
...Good looks, good complexion, and all the surrounding people already feel "alright" around you.
...Insert, if necessary, threats and intimidation...
...A tendency to be outspoken, or at least a history of it, whether it is the defendant or his or her lawyer is always a plus, not for the ability, but simply for the tendency.
...If you're good with it, you can also have a power of suggestion in your tone of voice, choice of words, and charm - you can perhaps "talk" your victims into saying (and doing) things they would never do...a form of hypnosis.
...I should also mention that if you are in a position of a creator of rules, you can break others' creations (i.e. rules), if you are in a position of following the rules, than you are in no position to break that which you cannot built. Creators create and break, and followers follow and obey...
"To be placed above the law" is a false statement. You are either over or under the law already, right there when you commit your actions. If your mindset is "I am an obedient of the law," you will be less persuasive and more likely to be hunt down. If your mindset is "I am over the law," that alone gives you the confidence of an outlaw, and believe it or not, helps when and if you're caught.
Self-confidence is a huge measure of how guilty you are seen, or if you're caught at all. The psychology behind it is simply amazing - it does wonders. You are either born with instincts to be over or to be under - not just the law, but others as well. You need not necessarily have the capabilities to bribe. Your actions speak of what kind of a person you are. If you’re over, whatever law, government, persecution, and charges will not exactly stand in your way, or at least have a way harder time of dragging you down. If you’re the good citizen, then you’re the “good” citizen. And thank you for being so. But don’t expect to have what it takes to overcome the law. In fact, just the term “the law” should be enough to have you fear and tremble before what is greater than yourself. You are also the type of person who "fears the consequences of 'bad' actions," or so to speak on behalf of "good" citizens. What you do is confound by ethics and moral values: "does this yield good or what?" You indeed think of what an action "yields," and less of what you want, whatever the consequences might be. Of course, in the United States, for example, many people do this as well - are they all creators? No. To know what an action might yield is different than thinking and considering what it might yields. Take abortion, for example - there is no sexually active person who is yet blind to the consequences of intercourse. The consequences are known. When the victim then says that she didn't desire a child when she engaged in an intercourse, and then avoids it by abortion, it does not mean that she is a creator, that she is "above the law." It means that she is irresponsible. That she knew what is possible yet completely rejected it and thought only of "the moment." Being above the law is different - it is when you are blind to the possibilities and probabilities yet still commit the action, and then if you're caught, still have the charm and instinct to evade. That is being above the law, that is being a great human being in general.
I could go on, but this is long already...