Word: client
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proper to give your client legal advice when you have reason to believe that the knowledge will tempt him to commit perjury...
...adversary system. In theory, that system produces truth and justice by pitting lawyers in a contest before neutral judges and juries. The defense lawyer is torn between his role as a truth-seeking officer of the court and his duty to fight as hard as possible for his client...
...trying to make a little champagne out of pure fizz. My Turn is a collection of O'Hara columns that were featured and syndicated by Newsday, the Long Island newspaper (TIME, October 8, 1965). O'Hara's career did not last very long; some client newspapers dropped him, and Newsday itself did not renew his contract after 53 weeks...
...years in Statesville, which he remembers as all "whistles, bells and men in brown," Danny filed a pauper's appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court, which duly appointed an able young Chicago lawyer named Eugene Farrug to handle his case for no fee. On first meeting his scrawny client, Farrug felt immediate compassion: "He looked so small and helpless. There was the enormity of the prison, the towering guards, the prison clothes a little too big for him." Danny himself could hardly believe the earnest stranger's promise that "you have the whole American tradition...
Handcuffed Client. Grace's husband was shot in the back as he arrived at his slum home on Chicago's West Side one cold January night in 1960. It was a typically clueless crime: no gun was found; there were no witnesses. But 80% of all murders involve friends or relatives, and with no warrant the police nabbed Grace, Danny and two of his friends, Bobby Chan, 17, and Benny Di Gerlando, 18. While detectives questioned them for 14½ hours at the city's ugly grey police headquarters, Chan's mother got in touch with...