Word: lawyer
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Indeed, so many cases of brutality in Houston involve Mexicans that famed Lawyer Percy Foreman declares: "If six Mexicans beat up a policeman, it's murder, but if six policemen beat up a drunk Mexican and throw him into the river, it's a misdemeanor." Foreman is representing the family of Joe Campos Torres 23, whom police picked up in a barroom brawl, then beat senseless and tossed into the Buffalo Bayou. Police Chief B.G ("Pappy") Bond arrested one of the officers in the Torres murder but stoutly denies wrongdoing by his men in numerous other killings. Insists...
...Christian Democratic opposition. The two sets of proposals, which the Bundestag will consider this month, agreed on a number of key points: 1) the trial of terrorists would be speeded and prison terms toughened; 2) radical attorneys would be curbed from abusing the privileges of the lawyer-client relationship (see box); 3) coordination of federal, state and local police should be improved to track down the terrorists more effectively...
...bank, and not from Continental. Not to be outdone, the rival Sun-Times tried to make something of the fact that John Moore, who helped the Carter Administration vet potential appointees, including Lance, for possible conflicts of interest, happened to be a law partner of Lance's own lawyer. Powell called that overblown accusation "a real low point in the coverage...
...District Court of Boston in 1974, claims only the 238 acres of the town's common land, including the environmentally fragile cliffs, but many non-Indian residents fear a precedent that could allow the Wamponoags to claim land that is now owned privately, as well. Indeed, 'the Indians' lawyer has stated that the same principle that allows the Indians to claim the common lands applies to all the land in Gay Head and some Indian factions want to assert that legal right...
...Association moved to intervene two years after the Indians filed their suit. A stormy Gay Head town meeting, which received extensive coverage from the national media, provided the opposition's impetus. After the dust settled, the town of Gay Head, with an Indian majority, voted both to dismiss the lawyer the town hired to defend the suit against the tribal council and to give the contested land to the Indians. Vague hints that the town might wish to code even more land to the Wampanoags upset the whites, so the Taxpayer's Association initiated legal action...