Word: darnay
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...taken the outside agitation of a publicity-seeking New York City legal expert--no, not Geraldo Rivera--to put the heaviest formal pressure on Boulder authorities. Attorney Darnay Hoffman (clients include Bernhard Goetz, the famed subway gunman; family members include wife Sidney Biddle Barrows, the famed "Mayflower Madam") has filed suit against district attorney Alex Hunter, charging--under an obscure Colorado statute that allows private citizens to question the actions of prosecutors--that Hunter has "unjustifiably refused" to charge Patsy Ramsey. Hoffman's evidence? Testimonials from four writing experts alleging it is probable the ransom note discovered when JonBenet...
...could not have been easy for Bernhard Goetz, left--dubbed the "subway gunman" by New York City tabloids--to hear himself referred to in a courtroom as "a nerd, a geek, a peckerwood and a cracker." The author of these epithets: Goetz's own lawyer, Darnay Hoffman, right, pursuing the tactic of insulting one's client before the opposition can. It didn't work: a jury found Goetz liable to the tune of $43 million in the civil lawsuit growing out of his gunning down of four menacing panhandlers in 1984. Other examples of "Don't say that about...
...June, when a bankruptcy trustee will reviews his debts with creditors. "It prevents a sheriff or marshal and New York State from coming in and just simply ransacking Bernie's house, having a public auction out on the street, doing anything that's basically unpredictable," said his lawyer, Darnay Hoffman. Last week, a Bronx jury awarded $43 million to Darrell Cabey, the man paralyzed and brain-damaged in the subway incident. During the civil trial, Cabey's lawyer Ron Kuby urged the jury to take what little money Goetz might have and bankrupt him to guarantee he would never enjoy...
...were comments made by Goetz, an electronics expert, before and since the shootings. He told a community meeting in 1980 that he was concerned about "spics and niggers" in the area, and has said that he wanted to kill all four of the youths. The tactics of defense lawyer Darnay Hoffman were a notable failure -->