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...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...
...Stewart Living Omnimedia, the company she founded, will depend on a very different kind of corporate chemistry now that Stewart has been sentenced to serve prison time for conspiracy and obstruction after lying to federal investigators about a stock trade. Standing before Judge Miriam Cedarbaum last week in a courtroom in lower Manhattan, Stewart's voice faltered as she asked for leniency. "My hopes that my life will not be completely destroyed lie entirely in your competent and experienced and merciful hands," she said. Cedarbaum gave her the mildest sentence possible under federal guidelines: five months in a minimum-security...
...Father’s Day, after all—and I decided to be more open to the possibility of serving on a jury. Sure enough, after a day and a half of waiting at the courthouse I was called in for a domestic abuse panel. The courtroom, the judge in his robes, the defendant consulting with his lawyer, even the bailiffs with their not-so-inconspicuous weapons, awed me. “I should do this,” I thought...
DIED. SIR RICHARD MAY, 65, British judge who adeptly steered the proceedings in former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's war-crimes tribunal; of a brain tumor; in Oxford, England. The low-key but occasionally prickly barrister resigned in February owing to grave health, after two years of regular courtroom wrangling with the defiant Serbian leader over everything from cell-phone use to the former dictator's efforts to blame the Balkan wars on Western political leaders...