Word: counseled
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Arrested for sharing a marijuana cigarette at the annual Boston Freedom Rally in September, Cusick and Stroup turned to Harvard Law School professor Charles R. Nesson ’60 for legal counsel. Nesson and his clients acknowledged that they had used the illegal drug, and decided upon an unusual defense: they argued that the statute outlawing marijuana in Massachusetts has no “rational basis,” and that the jury has the power of jury nullification, or ruling a defendant innocent while recognizing that he or she had violated...
...more than 164,000 North Carolinians have voted early. Don Wright, general counsel for the North Carolina State Board of Elections, says reports from throughout the state indicate that many of those voters are students, though officials do not track exactly how many...
...February, College administrators presented an alcohol policy to the Committee on House Life (CHL) as a working draft, saying that it was collaboratively produced by the Office of the Dean of the College, the Office of the General Counsel, HoCos, and House masters...
...second-highest civilian, told him last year, "We need to think about charging some high-value detainees because there could be strategic value before the [November] election." Davis is also expected to repeat, as he has in court filings, that the Defense department's former top lawyer, general counsel William Haynes, informed him, "We can't have acquittals [at Guantanamo]. If we've been holding these guys for so long, how can we explain letting them get off?. We've got to have convictions." Davis is also quite likely to accuse Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, senior legal advisor...
...judge permits his testimony, Davis will state that Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England asked him last year to charge some "high-value detainees" before the November elections. He will also say that the Defense Department's former general counsel, William Haynes, pushed for convictions, asking, "If we've been holding these guys for so long, how can we explain letting them get off?" And he will accuse Air Force Brigadier General Thomas Hartmann, senior legal adviser to the tribunal, of demanding "sexy" cases with "blood on them" to drum up public support for convictions. "There is no question they...