Word: gordon
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...tainted evidence and/or that drug hit men committed the crimes. "Basically, the majority of our case has been presented through cross-examination of prosecution witnesses," says Simpson's attorney Robert L. Shapiro. "They [prosecutors] have been required to go on the defensive." And that, says veteran defendants' lawyer Gigi Gordon, has "taught lawyers all over the country how to do it if they have the resources. Now they should know when to sit down. My motto is, if you don't stand up, they can't shoot...
...acquitted unless he takes the stand,'' says Los Angeles defense attorney Andrew Stein. The risk is that he would then have to withstand cross-examination on every piece of circumstantial evidence, but Stein for one believes he might pull it off because "he has such presence.'' Gordon disagrees: "If he were my client, I'd be standing there with duct tape. I'd be saying, 'If you want to commit suicide, do it on your own nickel...
...dictatorship and was forced into a financially pinched and emotionally isolated exile in Venezuela. Eventually her marriage fell apart, just as her literary career took off. In 1988, on a book tour in California, she fell in love "at first sight" with, and married, an American lawyer, William Gordon. It was to their house that she brought Paula, in the final months of her coma, so she could die at home...
...DIED. GORDON WILSON, 67, peace activist; of a heart attack; in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland. In 1987 Wilson's daughter was killed by an I.R.A. bomb, and in a moving rejection of his country's bloody bouts of violence and retribution, he publicly forgave her murderers...
...position to be a censor--that responsibility should be at the parents' level, or whoever controls the terminal," says Gordon Ross, chief executive officer of Canada's Vancouver-based Net Nanny, a program that allows a parent or guardian to monitor everything passing through the computer. Net Nanny users, for example, can enter such phrases as "What's your name?" and "What's your phone number?" in a phrase book. When the software detects one of the targeted phrases printing across the terminal--say, in a chat room of a commercial online service--Net Nanny harrumphs and pulls the plug...