Word: counsels
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...Justice Department has tried to justify the intrusion as necessary to prevent terrorists from using their counsel, in the tradition of mob consiglieres and drug-kingpin lawyers, to convey information to co-conspirators on the outside. At last week's Senate hearing, Chertoff quoted from an al-Qaeda terrorism manual obtained overseas that urged members to take advantage of prison visits to communicate useful information...
...Israelis were not treated with great warmth during their three weeks in federal custody. Sabag and the only other woman in the group, Shulamit Amram, spent four hours handcuffed to a chair, some in the group were administered polygraph tests without counsel present, and none of them could contact their families because the prison where they were detained doesn't allow international collect calls. The reasons behind their detention: in March, employees in federal office buildings around the country complained to authorities about another group of Israeli students who represented themselves as selling art but seemed uncommonly interested in gaining...
...addition, he spends a few hours a week tutoring through the Bureau of Study Counsel and tutors middle school math students for math competitions...
...right to counsel long predates the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Medieval English common law courts recognized that the accused had to have access to a trusted source of information about the laws in order for the adversarial system of justice to be fair. This sentiment was made explicit by the 6th Amendment, guaranteeing that the accused have access to counsel to conduct his or her defense...
...regulations trample over this constitutional protection by discouraging inmates from having fully open conversations with their defense attorneys about the circumstances of a case, preventing the attorney from giving the most appropriate legal advice possible. For instance, the accused might be less inclined to share information with their counsel that would clear their name in a particular case if this information might possibly incriminate them in a lesser or different offence...