Word: client
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Freida Powell's murder, has already been sentenced to 75 years, after pleading guilty Sept. 30 to the slaying of Katherine Rich. He has been officially charged with twelve other murders during the past eight years. His lawyer plans to plead in the Powell case that his client is not guilty by reason of insanity...
...Every lawyer has a professional obligation to his client that extends beyond the jury verdict," said the former aide for domestic affairs...
...Stick with your client when he gets to jail, he needs you," he said. He described his position as a former lawyer in prison as being like a "doctor in a leper colony...
...hard to criticize Kunen for rambling off his point--rambling on about an insane boy he meets on a train--when Kunen never establishes what the point is. He once tries explaining things to a client with a story observing one of those great truths the Kunens of this world always observe, "everyone likes a story." His use of evidence crosses the realm from the odd into the truly bizarre. Key legal points and statistics are attributed to private conversations, but the word "motherfucker" gets the lengthy note. "For an interesting discussion of the psychological implications of the expression 'motherfucker...
...Kunen quickly--and probably inadvertently--dispells the myth of public defenders as ethical gods. "Deception is not deceit," Kunen says, "Lawyers and magicians practice deception. Dishonest people practice deceit." With that said, Kunen brazenly describes a client's parole status at a sentencing hearing. All of which proves Kunen doesn't need a top partnership to be a sleaze. If Kunen dispels the popular myth that public defenders are somehow more ethical than higher priced lawyers, he only adds to the impression that they simply got the thin envelope from law schools that would offer them more than a shot...