Word: client
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...part, the defense plans to put Sirhan on the witness stand. It will try to convince the jury that even if their client did shoot Kennedy, he bore "a diminished responsibility" for the act. Explains Defense Attorney Russell Parsons: "We ask: Can a man maturely and meaningfully premeditate? If the answer is no, what might otherwise have been first-degree murder could be instead second-degree." Toward this end, the defense will probably call Sirhan's former employer, Food-Store Owner John Weidner, who worried about Sirhan's irrational temper. Sirhan's mother and brothers are expected...
...degree at the University of Southern California. In 1935, he defended a murderer named "Rattlesnake" James, who tried to kill his wife by holding her foot in a box full of rattlesnakes. To play it safe, James dispatched her by drowning. Parsons managed to keep his client alive for seven years after conviction in a day when appeals were hard to come by. As for his defense of Sirhan: "It won't be the first time I've defended someone free," he says. "There's a poor devil in trouble, and that's enough...
...Battle. To the complicated, often oblique strategy of the defense-much of it in the privacy of the judge's chambers-yet another twist was added. With his client safely locked away in his windowless, heavily guarded cell on the 13th floor, Attorney Cooper himself was facing a grand-jury investigation at the federal courthouse across the street. While representing a client in a sensational card-cheating trial, Cooper illegally "obtained a secret federal grand-jury transcript. Admitting that he had lied in court about how he got the transcript, Cooper refused to divulge his source on the ground...
Claiming that publicity of his troubles might adversely affect his client, Cooper attempted to get the Sirhan trial postponed until he cleared up his own case, but was overruled by Judge Walker. Cooper is expected to stay on as Sirhan's chief counsel, relegating his personal crisis to off-hours. Even so, it seemed unlikely that the trial could be concluded in less than two months...
...state has won a change of venue the ground that the trial would create a dangerous situation in Cambridge Kunstler, who believes that Brown can get a fairer trial in Cambridge which has a 35% Negro population,' argued last month that the Sixth Amendment guarantees his client a speedy trial "in the vicinage" of the alleged crime The phrase is nowhere in the amendment But, citing a letter from James Madson Kunstler contended that the framers had meant the amendment to cover this right. The judge has yet to rule on the argument...