Word: clauses
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...that time of year again, when my place at the North Pole is alive with excitement and activity. The elves have never been quite so busy, and Mrs. Claus is sewing some buttons on the old suit. I've been making some repairs to the sled and preparing the reindeer...
Last Monday found three young men dressed only in underwear and red pointed Santa Claus hats having chicken fights in front of Widener Library. While one can be reasonably sure that they were final club punches, one can also be sure that they were not punching...
There are a few notable precedents, however. In 1985, after a previous conviction was overturned, socialite Claus von Bulow was acquitted of trying to kill his wife, Martha ("Sunny") von Bulow. Claus' two stepchildren then filed a civil suit against him that was settled out of court after Von Bulow agreed, among other things, to renounce his claims to his comatose wife's fortune. Says attorney Michael Armstrong, who represented the stepchildren: "The purpose for the Von Bulow suit was to get Claus out of the lives of the family. When he agreed to do that, there was no longer...
...officers are trained to lie on the witness stand. (That remark sparked a recent protest by more than 60 area police officers outside The Dersh's office in early June.) Ron Silver played Dershowitz in Reversal of Fortune, a film based on Dersh's defense of Rhode Island aristocrat Claus von Bulow...
...fantasy land,'' says Scott Wallace, special counsel to the National Legal Aid and Defender Association. "It's not real life in the criminal justice system." And it would be unfortunate if the public's avid consumption of this and other trials of the rich and famous -- the Menendez brothers, Claus von Bulow, William Kennedy Smith -- left the general impression that our criminal justice system routinely allows defendants a thorough and aggressive defense, in which no fact goes unchallenged or theory unexplored. In fact, the report that Spangenburg co-authored for the A.B.A. concluded that the indigent defense system...