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...grounds that the lawyers, not the client, should be in control of defense strategy. "The standard for the conduct of criminal cases says that the client has the choice of whether to plead guilty or not, or whether to take the stand or not," observes Stanford University law professor Barbara Babcock, "but I don't think that the tactical decision of what defenses to raise...
Which is what could happen in California this week. Bauer has inserted himself into a battle between two Republicans in a special election for a House seat in Santa Barbara. The district is made up mostly of fiscally conservative, socially moderate Republicans, which is why Speaker Newt Gingrich was backing Brooks Firestone, an heir to the family tire business who became a winemaker and, since 1994, a moderate, pro-choice state assemblyman. But a furious Bauer ponied up $100,000 for an ad campaign that zings Firestone for his refusal to back a ban on partial-birth abortions and promotes...
Former neighbor Barbara Moline sees Seed in a different light. "He started conversations by telling you he deserved to be a Nobel prizewinner," she remembers. He was always dreaming up new crusades, she says. A few years ago, Seed invited Moline to invest $75,000 in his project to cure AIDS. Last summer he asked if the church could donate space to help support his cloning research. For Seed, Moline believes, cloning represents a "last, desperate attempt to become rich and famous. He wanted to make it big, but he never...
...Seed really worthy of all this attention, or should he be dismissed as harmless? TIME magazine has unearthed evidence that human cloning is not Seed's first money-seeking crusade ? former neighbor Barbara Moline says she was invited to invest $75,000 in a Seed scheme to cure AIDS. "He started conversations by telling you he deserved to be a Nobel prizewinner," Moline remembers. Not to mention that he's a physicist rather than a physician, and has no embryology experience. But lawmakers know a good enemy when they see one, and as long as he plays the mad scientist...
...Wild and wacky Marv Blame the Victim, Part II: sportscaster Marv Albert pleaded guilty to biting a woman during sex, then told Barbara, Katie and Dave it was the woman's fault. Albert ignored the first law of celebrity: being famous allows you to do all the naughty things you ever wanted; it also makes it a lot more likely you'll get caught...