Word: canon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dead wrong-and he is. But the public is misled about the role of defense lawyers at a time when this role is so vital. There is no valid difference of opinion on whether or not a lawyer should allow his client to commit perjury. The Canons of Ethics are not ambiguous here: Canon 15 commands that the lawyer "obey his own conscience and not that of his client." No duty owed the client by the lawyer or the adversary system requires a lawyer to lie or permit his client to lie in court. No lawyer worthy of the profession...
...recently, a Lutheran minister presided as a mixed congregation of Catholics and Protestants recited his church's version of vespers; a priest and a Baptist minister alternated reading the lessons. Last fall, in Boca Raton, Fla., an Anglican priest celebrated Mass before another interfaith group, using a new canon, or prayer of consecration, composed by a Dutch Jesuit...
...result, the defendant may remain silent-while the jury scrutinizes his lawyer's every word for any hint of doubt as to his client's innocence. In this situation, says Freedman, the lawyer's moral dilemma is compounded by the American Bar Association's 1908 Canons of Ethics. While Canon 22 requires "candor" toward the court, Canon 37 tells the lawyer "to preserve his client's confidences," and Canon 15 commands his "entire devotion to the interest of the client." As Freedman sees it, the moral margin winds up on the side of deception...
...Washington's U.S. Attorney David G. Bress, who has written a short rebuttal to Freedman's law-review article, the professor's opinions totally overlook the command of Canon 5, requiring a defense lawyer to use "all fair and honorable means." To Bress, "This can only mean defending without the use of known perjury." In a letter to the Washington grievance committee, on the other hand, University of Pennsylvania Law Professor Anthony Amsterdam defended Freedman's original lecture as "a probing and responsible attempt to answer difficult and intensely practical problems created by our adversary system...
...rather arbitrary. In 1948, the works of Jean-Paul Sartre were condemned for their existential atheism, and in 1952 those of Andre Gide for immorality. Oddly enough, neither Karl Marx nor Henry Miller have ever been Indexed, although their writings were presumably forbidden for Catholics under a provision of canon law that automatically condemns Communist or pornographic books. Last reprinted in 1948, the Index has not had a new entry since 1961, when Rome banned a life of Christ by the late French Biblical scholar, Abbé Jean Steinmann...