Word: florida
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When Rubin appealed, a Florida appellate court backed up Judge Shapiro. The court acknowledged the "serious dilemma" posed by Rubin's responsibility to his client and his conflicting duty to protect the integrity of the judicial system. But it agreed with Shapiro's decision not to let Rubin walk away from the case. Its proposed solution: Rubin could allow the "defendant to take the stand and deliver his statement in narrative form," decline to "elicit the perjurious testimony by questioning," and refuse to "argue the false testimony during closing argument." Following these guidelines, the court assured Rubin, would fulfill...
...evil." Judge Shapiro held Rubin in criminal contempt and sentenced him to 30 days. Fully prepared, with underwear and shaving kit stuffed in his briefcase, Rubin last week heard Shapiro pack him off to jail. Undaunted, the lawyer arranged for a habeas corpus petition to be filed with the Florida Supreme Court. Shortly thereafter, he was released on his own recognizance...
Typically, a lawyer will attempt to drop the client, as Rubin did. Sometimes the lawyer may warn the judge outright of the perjury. A third alternative is the one suggested to Rubin by the Florida appeals court: to stand mute while the defendant narrates his story unaided, a solution rejected by the A.B.A. but permitted in some states. For the lawyer who decides to part from a client, says Hofstra Law Professor Monroe Freedman, "the point of no return is when you are so close to trial that the judge is not going to grant a motion to withdraw." That...
...year-old Edgar Krass succeeds Don Usher who retired at the end of the season after being head coach for five years. Before he went to Clemson in 1984, Krass coached at his alma mater, Central Florida, during the 1982-83 season, guiding the unranked men's tennis team to a sixth place ranking in division...
...many as 6 million people descended upon the tip of Manhattan island for the big show. Families from Wyoming and Kansas and Florida camped where yellow cabs usually scuffle; they picnicked where loafered stockbrokers, lawyers and city clerks scurry. New York was a time warp as thousands of white-suited sailors painted the town red. Ambling around Times Square, they transformed the city into a stage set from On the Town ("New York, New York, a helluva town./ The Bronx is up, but the Battery's down...