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...defense strategy was shattered. Last week Clarke and lead attorney Quin Denvir filed a terse, one-sentence notice saying they no longer planned to argue that their client was mentally ill. Says University of Chicago law professor Albert Alschuler: "If he doesn't want to raise a mental-defect defense, he doesn't have...
...whole schedule on Thursday is much more open to attack by other networks," says Harold Vogel, an entertainment-industry analyst for Cowen & Co. All this is bad enough, but NBC also faces the possibility that ER will soon defect to another network. Now that Seinfeld is going, that would be truly calamitous for NBC, so the pressure to keep ER has become exponentially greater...
...with little wriggle room. Their last best chance to avoid the death penalty may lie in a kind of Catch-22 that defense experts have already addressed: After the prosecution rejected Kaczynski's offer of a guilty plea, his only way to beat the rap is with a mental-defect defense. Who, then, but a crazy man would insist that he's sane...
Kaczynski Gets His Way Theodore Kaczynski has forced his lawyers to abandon attempts to show that the Unabomber-accused suffers from a mental defect. How will the defense argue the case? Full Story...
...could mean more reproductive choices for the infertile, they could also create tricky ethical and legal issues. Indeed, almost every clinical advance in assisted reproduction leads to unforeseen dilemmas. Take ICSI, which on its face seems utterly benign. In some cases, male infertility may be caused by a genetic defect; helping a man with such a defect reproduce could result in passing the defect on to his son. Also, since sperm can be obtained surgically, they have in a few cases been recovered from men killed in accidents, and then used to father children--a legal quagmire, since the dead...