Word: defendents
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Helping Drunken Drivers As an attorney, I feel a response is required to those who wrote letters criticizing lawyers who defend drunken drivers [Feb. 6]. It is sad that many people feel compelled to crusade against one group or another and then to use that forum to chastise attorneys. If we disregard the right to a defense of a group that is held in disfavor, then the protection of the law will potentially be unavailable...
...addition, juries, especially in southern states where the death penalty is most prevalent tend to defend white lives more vehemently than Black lives and especially to identify more with white victims. While the tendency towards such discrimination is, unfortunately, inextricably a part of criminal "justice" in states such as Georgia, it is aggravated in capital cases where opposition in principle to the death penalty is grounds for exclusion from a jury: statistics prove that juries qualified by such a condition underrepresented certain identifiable segments of the population, among them Blacks...
...will be the Crimson's toughest opponents in the men's meet, whereas Army, Yale, and Cornell most likely will light it out in the women's meet. "And us of course," Haggerty is quick to mention. "We are going to do just what we're here to do--defend the championship...
David is the oldest survivor of severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), a class of genetic defects that affect about 60 to 100 American newborns a year. Most die by age two. Children with SCID lack specialized white blood cells called Tcells, which help defend the body against viruses and other invaders. T-cells are ordinarily produced in an immature form in the bone marrow and come to maturity in the thymus (hence the T). The only cure for SCID is a transplant of healthy marrow, a bloodlike fluid found in large bones. But such transplants are difficult, since donated marrow must...
...right." One has rights (and protections thereof) only to the extent that one is also willing to grant the same rights to others. (If this were a "southern university" of 30 years ago and Klansmen were disrupting a speech of Blacks or Communists, would these individuals "defend" their rights...