Word: client
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...recalled an instance in which a Philadelphia trial lawyer said that if he were to move a criminal case from an urban court to a rural area, the jury would want to sentence his client to "five days in the electric chair," since rural juries are tougher on criminal defendants than those in cities...
...offer evidence, summon witnesses and make arguments. A witness or "target" can invoke his Fifth Amendment right against selfincrimination, but in most states he cannot bring his lawyer in to the grand jury room. Even where he can, the lawyer is powerless to do much more than tell his client to keep quiet...
...possible," says Charles Lecht, chairman of Lecht Sciences Inc., a New York City software company, "but I know of several instances where it has been done." Some U.S. software houses routinely encode secret time-delay functions in the logic of their largest commercial programs before sending them to prospective clients for preview. For example, such a program might be set to self-destruct if it is run more than ten times in a row. An unscrupulous client who tries to make repeated use of the program without paying for it will suddenly find the software gobbling up its own data...
Eastman's position draws upon a firmly based heritage. The protection of the clergy-penitent relationship rests on "one of the more basic privileges," says Harvard Law Professor Arthur Miller-as strong or stronger than the similar claims to confidentiality between lawyer and client or doctor and patient. The Fourth Lateran Council of A.D. 1215 formalized the already long-established clerical discipline of absolute secrecy for discussions during sacramental confessions...
...Lorean's shrewd and crafty defense attorneys, Howard Weitzman and Donald Rée, maintained a similar high pitch of righteous indignation throughout the trial. They portrayed their client as an embattled entrepreneur seeking to fulfill the American dream, a man himself the victim of a giant conspiracy: "Lured, lied to and pushed" into a trap set by Government agents who were "on a headlong rush to glory." The tactic was to put the Government on trial, and it worked. De Lorean never took the stand. Nor did his lawyers ever make a direct defense on the grounds...