Word: client
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Simple as that," the Leavitt character notes, "I became an industry," turning out term papers for seven college boys who hear of his service--and his terms--and seek him out anyway. His last client is a devout Mormon named Ben, who is so desperate for a good grade that will get him into law school that he is "willing to do things I'll be ashamed of for the rest of my life." Leavitt perks up at that "things." Ben believes both the cheating and the required method of payment are sins. "After all," Leavitt muses, "none...
Jose Pertierra, one of Harbury's lawyers, said his client's struggle to find Everardo has drawn enormous attention to human-rights abuses in Guatemala...
...getting harder and harder to find affordable housing for people who are HIV-positive," says Alexander, who heads the housing-advocacy branch of client services at Cambridge Cares. "Right now it's nearly impossible...
...vats of water. While the gruesome accounts did not appear to faze the four defendants, who spent their time doodling with pencils or rolling their eyes in disdain, the trial was not without its surprises. Branislav Tapuskovic, the ethnic Serb lawyer for Croatian defendant Zdravko Mucic, claimed that his client had taken the job as camp commander solely out of a humanitarian desire to increase food supplies and release Serb prisoners. "Mucic was trying to help the people . . . he was not really in charge," argued Tapuskovic. "Conditions in the camp were not meant to make people suffer." Instead, Tapuskovic maintains...
...attempt to protect other conspirators in the case." In 1995 news stories appeared in which McVeigh admits his guilt to unnamed sources. (McVeigh told TIME in March 1996 that "I've said I'm not guilty.") Still, even if the Dallas notes are authentic, they are covered by attorney-client privilege, and will probably never be entered as evidence. (The privilege protects confidential communications made by a client to a lawyer.) As for Jones, even if he knew, he is not obligated to tell the court of his client's guilt. Says Susan Estrich, professor of criminal...