Word: client
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...client needed an illustration of Freud (once the most popular request) or Jesus (less so) or perhaps Washington's wooden dentures, Bettmann ferreted it out of his filing cabinets. Only rarely did he disappoint, as when a pasta manufacturer wanted a drawing of Jefferson eating spaghetti. (The Archives for years offered a reward of $1,000 for an illustration of the Earl of Sandwich eating a sandwich...
...source: "Bailey was the only member of the team who kept arguing that O.J. should take the stand. That's one reason O.J. liked him. He wanted to take the stand. Bailey kept saying, 'You've got great charisma. You'll blow them away.'" Cochran says he put his client through mock cross-examinations, and that he was "a very compelling witness." In the end, though, Cochran acknowledges, "We were just concerned about all these things we had kept out. I mean there were doors we had kept closed about alleged domestic violence stuff...lots of [other] stupid stuff that...
...beaten him until his lip split open. How likely is it that juror Brenda Moran would have called looking at this evidence "a waste of time," or that Johnnie Cochran would have been able to wave it away as "domestic discord" and a sign that his client was "not perfect...
After spending the night with Simpson, the children returned to their grandparents' home in Monarch Bay, California, where they are enrolled in school. Simpson is represented in the custody case by Bernard Leckie, an attorney in Irvine, California, who predicts that his client will take custody of the children at some point and that the case will be worked out amicably. Says Leckie: "The Browns, in talking with their attorneys, are mindful that the best interest of the children is the key matter, and they realize that O.J. loves the children and that they should have their father's influence...
...case. That methodical approach, they said, would lead straight from the crime scene to Simpson's bedroom and to only one conclusion: Guilty. Defense attorney Johnnie Cochran delivered a fire-and-brimstone assault on the Los Angeles police. He accused the department of plotting a frame-up of his client, who he said was innocent and had been targeted by a deceitful and ruthlessly racist detective, Mark Fuhrman. Defense attorney Barry Scheck said blood-DNA tests had been so tampered with they were worthless...