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...drone: the mournful monotone of Enya, U2 and Sinead O'Connor, singing elegies to the millennium. Now comes the Irish quartet CLANNAD (whose lead singer, Maire Brennan, is Enya's sister) and an album, Anam, that has all the right career moves: a duet with U2's Bono, a song from the hit movie Patriot Games. The group merits a listen. Brennan's soprano keenings, in English and Gaelic, are variously backed by cool, Sergio Mendes-style harmonies, a bluesy sax, and a guitar's banshee wailing. But in the tune Harry's Game, Clannad goes spare and liturgical, transmuting...
Instead, Tribe worked pro bono torepresent the family of Rose Cipollone, who diedof lung cancer in 1984. winning the case, Tribesaid, gave him "a certain Sweet feeling...
...Milton Gould, who heads Helmsley's new legal effort, bluntly says Dershowitz is out of the picture. "He is not acting for her any longer," Gould says of Dershowitz. "He is not doing anything that I know about, and I'm supposed to know." Maybe Dershowitz is working pro bono. He just doesn't know...
Proposals for similar centers to improve lawyering at the trial phase have gone nowhere. Nor do death-penalty opponents see much hope in the idea of "mandatory pro bono," a system that would require all lawyers and firms to donate some time to representing poor defendants. An attorney who ordinarily specializes in corporate cases or real estate, no matter how competent or well trained, would still be at sea amid the complexities of a murder trial. Says Shelly O'Neill, a Reno public defender: "It's like calling a dentist to do a brain surgeon's work...
These are the sorts of considerations that Coleman might have raised on appeal. But during his first habeas appeal, a pair of pro bono lawyers from Arnold & Porter argued primarily that there was insufficient proof of his guilt. Since then, court after court has rejected Coleman's arguments, maintaining that such details should have been presented in the first appeal. A year ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against his petition for an evidentiary hearing because the Washington lawyers filed papers a day too late. "Coleman might very well be innocent, yet the Supreme Court has used this arbitrary rule...