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...Gore believes in extending the hand of government to nurture promising technologies. The case of Bill Haney and his toxic-waste washing machine shows the Vice President knows how to get a hand in return. In Washington it's often hard to line up the quid with the quo. But what this Massachusetts entrepreneur apparently got for the $82,000 he and his executives gave to Gore and the Democrats since 1994 is not hard to decipher: a fat contract from the Energy Department that kept being renewed over the objections of government scientists...
...Judy Haney sits on death row in Wetumpka, Alabama, convicted in 1988 of murdering her husband, who she says routinely beat her and her children. Women who kill an abusive spouse almost never receive the death penalty. But Haney's defense was not all it might have been: one of her attorneys, for instance, came to court so drunk that the judge halted the proceedings and sent the man to jail overnight. When the trial resumed the next day, Haney was convicted and sentenced...
Like 80% to 90% of all felony defendants in the U.S., Haney was too poor to hire her own lawyer and was represented by court-appointed attorneys. In the Supreme Court's landmark 1963 decision, Gideon v. Wainwright, the Justices cited the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of the right to counsel and declared that indigent defendants accused of felonies must be provided with attorneys because, wrote Justice Hugo Black, the "noble ideal" of a fair trial is impossible if the poor man must "face his accusers without a lawyer to assist him." In 1972 the High Court extended this rule...
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SHIRLEY MACLAINE subbed when Carol Haney was out with a sprained ankle. That night Paramount producer Hal Wallis was in the audience. Wallis signed her to a contract after she screen-tested the next...