Word: client
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...defendant, and the like, or with reference to the defendant's prior criminal record." As for defense counsel, "the right of the state to a fair trial cannot be impeded or diluted by out-of-court assertions by him to news media on the subject of his client's innocence...
Possibly, in Alamo, Calif, (pop. 2,300), Lawyer George Finn didn't watch the World Series on TV. When he signed a lease for a client who was renting a home to St. Louis Cardinal Curt Flood, 26, it came as a shock to Finn that Flood was a Negro. Such a shock, in fact, that he snatched the key, threatening to shoot Flood if he took possession. With the aid of a locksmith, Flood moved in anyway, with his wife Beverly, 25, and their four children, to be greeted with cheers by practically every family on the block...
...There is an old saying among lawyers that if the facts favor your client, stress the facts in your argument; if the law favors your client, stress the law in your argument; if neither fact nor law supports your client's position, attack opposing counsel or even the judge himself. It is clear that Senator Goldwater's entourage has been unable to develop rational arguments to support his positions, and this accounts for his constant personal attacks on the President...
...Worthingtons' bodies surfaced, Gebhardt and young Worthington were arrested as prime suspects, but the evidence was all circumstantial and neither man would confess anything. Then Gebhardt's lawyer, who under Florida law had no way of learning the strength, or weakness, of the case against his client, offered the deal that did the police's work for them. "It was half a loaf or nothing," insisted Prosecutor Richard Gerstein. "In addition, the one who initiated the murder was killing his own parents and would inherit their estate if not convicted of murder." Unless Worthington now cops...
...your'liberty is worth?" asked the Rouen judge. "Twenty million francs!" shouted Rhadames Trujillo, 22, son of the slain Dominican dictator, who was thrown in the hoosegow on charges brought by relatives trying to sink their teeth into the family fortune of $100 million or so. "Excuse my client," pleaded his lawyer. "He is blinded by the thought of the freedom he wants so desperately." So the court blinked at Rhadames' clinker, set bail at only 10 million francs ($2,000,000), which his mother, sister and brother put up in a wink...