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Before Barry's troubles, Van Susteren had been a courtroom attorney in Washington. She practiced a wide variety of both criminal and civil law and represented a wide-ranging set of individuals--from accused murderers to wives seeking a divorce...
...five years' probation, six months of weekends confined to her home, six weeks of incarceration in a Salvation Army work-release center and a $30,000 fine. Lawyers on both sides of the case said it was the first time a shopaholic defense has triumphed in a U.S. courtroom...
...jury might have gone for murder one but instead convicted Nathaniel Brazill, 14, of murder in the second degree for pointing a gun between the eyes of his favorite teacher and pulling the trigger a year ago. "I'm O.K.," he mouthed to his mother Polly, seated in the courtroom's second row. Then he gave a little wave to a young cousin, sitting nearby...
...often find myself defending the Justice Department. For years in the courtroom I battled federal prosecutors and FBI agents, often accusing them of deliberately withholding evidence. In response, the government always claimed that the withheld documents were irrelevant and not "material" to my case...
...remember seeing Blake rush in for help, they do not recall his doubling back for the gun. During a five-hour interrogation the night of the crime, Blake declined a polygraph test, contending he was too distraught. Marcia Clark, who prosecuted Simpson and is now host of the syndicated courtroom show Power of Attorney, says that only celebrity is protecting Blake from arrest. Says Clark: "When I'm going to dinner, I tend to leave my AK-47 at home...