Word: client
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...THERE IS NO REAL RACIAL ISSUE IN THIS case, only a manufactured one. The Rodney King case was a racial case. The defense, showing no respect or concern for the black community, has blatantly used it to help their client, who is black in color only. The fact that a racial issue can be produced out of pure moonshine only confirms the malleability of the American people...
...compiled with Associated Press wire dispatches. Todd F. Braunstein and Justin Danilewitz also contributed to this report.Photo courtesy Associated PressFrankfurter Professor of Law ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ, a member of O.J. Simpson's defense team, touches a television screen in his office at Harvard Law School immediately after his client was acquitted of dual murder. Dershowitz would have worked on Simpson's appeal if the jury had convicted the former football star...
...provoked with his fierce defenses of civil and criminal rights. In the summer of 1961, however, he was more conventionally groomed. That's when he got his first taste of radical politics, springing antisegregationist Freedom Riders from Southern jails. The experience changed his life and led to a client list that could serve as an American Dissidents' Hall of Fame: Martin Luther King Jr., Lenny Bruce, Al Sharpton, flag burner Gregory Johnson, Indian activist Leonard Peltier, Attica prison rioters, Malcolm X and-decades later-Malcolm's daughter Qubilah Shabazz. Kunstler's combative defense of the Chicago Seven brought him four...
...three lobbyists complained that D'Amato sought contributions from them while they had legislative business on his desk. One of the lobbyists told Knight-Ridder that a D'Amato aide called him after a meeting with the Senator to ask how it had gone. When the lobbyist said his client's business was still pending, the aide reportedly re plied, "Well, we haven't seen a contribution from them." The client sent a $5,000 check, according to the lobbyist, and the business went through...
...Bruno Magli shoe that prosecutors contend was worn by the killer. There was still no ruling on the admissibility of tapes that allegedly contain racist remarks and confessions of evidence planting by recently retired L.A.P.D. detective Mark Fuhrman, a key prosecution witness. Fuhrman's lawyer said his client might seek Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination if he takes the stand again...