Word: courtroom
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...just might become Vice President of the U.S. [July 19] But now is not the time. His "two Americas" speech you quoted was masterly and moving, but it reminded me that Edwards is a trial lawyer by profession, and his words sounded as if he was talking to a courtroom jury. Edwards gives the impression of a man continually in a hurry, someone restless and not willing to be grateful for what he has already achieved. He wants much more, and he won't rest until he gets it. He wants people to elect him on faith, not experience. Anyone...
...serve time in prison for conspiracy, obstruction of justice and making false statements to federal investigators. It took 26 months and a bruising federal trial to break, if just for a moment, Stewart's stony resolve. She stood before Judge Miriam Cedarbaum last week in a lower-Manhattan courtroom, her voice faltering as she begged for leniency. "My hopes that my life will not be completely destroyed lie entirely in your competent and experienced and merciful hands," she said. Stewart asked the judge to consider her decades as an icon to women, the suffering she had already endured...
...judge must have been listening. Cedarbaum gave her the most lenient sentence possible under federal guidelines--five months in a minimum-security federal prison and five months of house arrest. Was Stewart surprised? "Not at all," she said defiantly as she left the courtroom. But Wall Street was impressed, sending the stock surging 37%, closing at $11.81, on news of the light sentence...
...that John Edwards delivered the closing argument in the biggest case of his career, the courtroom in Raleigh, N.C., was packed with young lawyers who had come to hear the master speak. The plaintiff, Valerie Lakey, 8, had been hideously injured three years earlier when she was caught in the suction drain of a wading pool. Most of her intestines had been ripped from her body. For the rest of her life, she will need to be hooked up to feeding tubes 12 hours...
...light of Edwards' success as a lawyer, some of the people most bitterly opposed to his legal career are wishing him well in politics. "The best thing about him running," says Robert Seligson, head of the North Carolina Medical Society, "is it keeps him out of the courtroom...