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Ryan, the former director of the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations, will answer questions from Demjanjuk's attorneys and U.S. District Judge Thomas A. Wiseman in a federal courtroom in Boston...
...domestic-violence cases. One study found that 40% of women who appeal their murder convictions get the sentence thrown out, compared with an 8.5% reversal rate for homicides as a whole. "I've worked on cases involving battered women who have talked only briefly to their lawyers in the courtroom for 15 or 20 minutes and then they take a plea and do 15 to life," recalls Blackman. "I see women who are Hispanic and don't speak English well, or women who are very quickly moved through the system, who take pleas and do substantial chunks of time, often...
...machinations are satisfactorily intricate. If the novelist tried to rape Carelli, as she insists, why does an apparently honest psychologist say the writer was impotent? And why did Carelli bring a pistol to the interview? There's a lot of grotesque sex (Disgusting! Tell us more!) unveiled in the courtroom. As is customary in lawyer novels, Paget has a pretty female assistant for love interest and a frigid witch of a female prosecutor to outwit. Microwave popcorn (Newman's Own, unflavored, add salt and real butter) is recommended with this...
...head junior rises to read the verdict as all eyes turn toward the jury. When the word "innocent" pierces the air, the courtroom audience erupts in calls of protest as the judge slams down his gavel in an attempt to restore order. No, this is not the closing frame from a recent "L.A. Law," but it is reality in all too many cases...
Ravi Zacharias, a philosophy scholar and a Christian apologist, drew crowds of more than 350 Thursday and 500 last night to the Law School's Ames Courtroom...