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...been trucked in as evidence, all to give jurors an idea of the life-style of the man on trial. Burrell overruled Kaczynski's objections to this plan on the grounds that the lawyers, not the client, should be in control of defense strategy. "The standard for the conduct of criminal cases says that the client has the choice of whether to plead guilty or not, or whether to take the stand or not," observes Stanford University law professor Barbara Babcock, "but I don't think that the tactical decision of what defenses to raise...
...outrage in Austria and dismay in the U.S. Austrian Culture Minister Elizabeth Gehrer called Morgenthau's intervention a "heavy blow to the international exchange of art" that "shakes the foundations of trust." It seemed particularly insulting that Morgenthau's office had behaved as though the present Austrian government, whose conduct in the restitution of art stolen by Nazis after the Anschluss has been impeccable, would stoop to the sort of cover-up deployed by Swiss bankers over their stocks of stolen Jewish gold...
...first to admit the ambiguity of the evidence without appropriate knowledge of the other side of the story. He publicly questions whether he can believe Berkowitz and emphasizes the need to talk to others for fear of violating somethings called Rule 11, which calls on lawyers to conduct a reasonable inquiry into the facts of a case before submitting papers to a court. In order to get to the other side of the story, one has to understand exactly who or what that side...
...Manners. The lesson ought to be: Whatever your innermost feelings--and we have no idea, despite the claims of pop psychology, how to change inner feelings--we demand certain behavior. That is what the civil rights laws are about. They do not mandate a pure society. They mandate right conduct amid impurity...
Yeltsin's conduct during recent state visits to Sweden and China was at times unnerving. He looked tired. His actions were eccentric. Some of his startling proposals, like deep cuts in strategic missiles and troops, were swiftly explained away as the musings of a statesman. Yet even his own staff fretted over other bizarre pronouncements. During a very successful trip to China, Yeltsin's hosts politely urged him to stay. Impossible, he replied, according to reporters present: "I have food for only two days." A person who works closely with the presidential team feared that polls would start picking...