Word: kamisar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...jabs (his favorite: Engler is the "product of miscegenation between barnyard animals and humans"), Fieger has spent his career making waves and lambasting virtually anyone who disagrees with him. "He's too quick. He's too unscrupulous, and he's too feisty," sniffs University of Michigan law professor Yale Kamisar, an expert on assisted suicide who has endured more than a few clashes with Fieger over his controversial client, Dr. Jack Kevorkian. "There are no rules. He'll do anything...
...laws against physician-assisted suicide now on the books in a majority of states may be on their way out. "In the past 30 days there have been more developments in this field than there have been in the previous 20 years," says University of Michigan law professor Yale Kamisar...
...seizing property. The decision, he says, means, for example, "that a mother who loans a car to a daughter is at risk of losing that car." Many legal experts agree. "It's hard to see why Tina Bennis should suffer because of the sins of her husband," says Yale Kamisar, a law professor at the University of Michigan. "The government seems to have an insatiable appetite in this area...
...JURY. The nearly instant decision after nine months of trial and what prosecutor Clark described as a "mountain of evidence" was the ultimate "embarrassment," in Kamisar's view. "The 12 smartest people who ever lived couldn't have sorted through the evidence and evaluated it in four hours," he declares. "I have to accept the verdict, but I don't have to respect the jury that rendered it because of their unseemly haste. They could at least have stayed in deliberations for nine hours--one hour for each of the million dollars it cost to prosecute the case...
...says Simpson prosecutor Brian Kelberg. "How are we going to get a surgeon or a bank president?" The potential jurors for big, sequestered cases tend to be unrepresentative: older, less educated and largely female. Moreover, sequestration is "a far cry from the foolproof system we think it is,'' says Kamisar. "Things slip through the seal"--conjugal visits, for instance...