Word: klieman
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...patient to a psychiatrist for antidepressant medicine called Trazodone. Although Power had problems peculiar to her, she also suffered from a chemical imbalance that had plagued her father years earlier. Carroll also sent her to a lawyer, Steven Black, who would eventually engage a prominent Boston attorney, Rikki Klieman...
Lawyers Black and Klieman began 14 months of negotiating with the authorities -- a year that gave Power time to gradually reveal herself to those who had come to love Alice Metzinger. On Sept. 12, Alice Metzinger held a going-away party, where she announced that she was headed for prison. Her friends showered her with gifts of good-luck charms, a stone and a feather, and a map of the night sky, which Robin Llewellyn, a co-worker at the coffee shop, says was given to her so that "she can experience the outside without being outside." Power's husband...
...eight-woman, four-man jury deliberated for 14 hours before delivering its verdict. The Twitchells' attorney, Rikki Klieman, promptly announced plans to appeal. Her primary argument, she says, will be that Judge Sandra Hamlin misinterpreted a 1971 Massachusetts statute on child abuse and neglect, which creates a legal exemption for those who believe in spiritual healing. Some 44 states provide some sort of religious exemption. In the Twitchell case, the first to test the Massachusetts law, Hamlin ruled that "a subjective belief in healing by prayer" is no excuse for not obtaining medical help when a child is seriously...
Defense attorney Klieman also questioned the judge's rejection of her request to poll the jury members, a practice sometimes used to ensure that a verdict correctly reflects the views of the jurors. "The fact that the jurors were weeping," she said, "shows every single reason they should have been polled...
...fool a doctor, it can fool any parent and it certainly can fool parents who rely on spiritual healing because it gets worse, it gets better," Klieman said...