Word: foremans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reasonable doubt. Even if they still show prejudice, the attorney may accept them: some people yearn to prove themselves unprejudiced. Moreover, lawyers commonly ask jurors in advance to guarantee disregard for this or that messy fact ("Will you disregard the defendant's adultery?"). Not for nothing does Percy Foreman devote as much as ten days to voir dire. "Once we chose the jury in the Candy Mossier case (see following story)," he says, "I knew we were in. They had promised to consider only murder as the crime on trial...
...only question was, how much were Candy and Melvin out? Last week they sued Foreman, demanding the return of assorted jewels and property that he took over as security for his $200,000 fee. Said Foreman: "I've known Mrs. Mossler for 16 years, and nothing she does would ever surprise...
More surprising is the fact that no client has ever before sued Foreman. A rich Texan charged with homicide once said that he could not decide whether to hire Foreman and spend the rest of his life in the poorhouse or gamble on a moderate sentence and keep his estate. If his clients lack cash, Foreman accepts anything else of value-boats, cattle, fiddles, limousines, washing machines. In and around Houston, he now owns 40 houses, an office building and several hundred acres of land...
Though he denies holding his clients in hock, Foreman always demands collateral against his later fee. "If you don't do that," he says, "you can't control the client. If they haven't paid for advice, they won't take it." Foreman has also boasted that his fee methods top mere law in chastising any of his clients who may be guilty. As he puts it: "I can punish them through the pocketbook, where it really hurts...
...FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11:56 p.m.). The dramatic changes in human personality brought about by the stress of war are vividly portrayed in Carl Foreman's 1963 epic, The Victors. The cast: Vincent Edwards, Albert Finney, Melina Mercouri, Jeanne Moreau, George Hamilton, Eli Wallach, George Peppard, Elke Sommer, Peter Fonda, James Mitchum and Senta Berger...