Word: client
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Carvalho's attorney Edward J. O'Connell said he was "disappointed" by the board's decision. He said his client has still not decided whether he will appeal the decision...
...every parent's nightmare. She is accused of becoming a prostitute by age 15, meeting customers through an escort service and sustaining contact via a beeper that she showed off in the high school girls' room. Far worse, she is charged with falling in love with an alleged client, a 38-year-old auto-body-shop owner, and shooting his wife in the head. Fisher insists she is an innocent 17-year-old who wants only to attend her graduation on June 28. Indictment for attempted murder and bail of $2 million are barring...
...client's ends are going to dominate, and the ability to do good is sometimes limited." Turow says. "For me, no less than any other lawyer, it's a daily dilemma...
During his tenure, Turow was reprimanded by theFederal Appeals Court for possibly havingobstructed justice by using a defense lawer as aninformant against his own client...
...convince the jury that the convicted killer should be executed. Defense lawyers are supposed to point out "mitigating factors" -- evidence of mental disability, for example, or a history of childhood abuse -- that might lead a jury to choose life in prison. But tracking down the evidence of a client's past is time-consuming and expensive, often requiring the services of social workers, psychologists and investigators whom poorly funded defenders cannot afford to hire...