Word: lawyer
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...responded by assassinating a prominent jurist; the trial was thereupon postponed. When the distinguished septuagenarian president of the Turin bar asked to aid in Curcio's defense, he was shot to death near his office. Curcio, who demanded the right to conduct his own defense, declared that the lawyer was a "collaborationist of the regime" and had been "executed." As the Turin trial was rescheduled to begin in May, most prospective jurors filed medical certificates excusing them from serving, and two of the six who did show up in court sobbed as they reported being threatened with death...
Attorney General Griffin Bell is opposed to the section permitting a witness to bring a lawyer, arguing that this "would mean two trials instead of one," but he is on record as favoring grand jury reform in principle. So are the American Bar Association and American Law Institute. Indeed, some trial lawyers have called for the abolition of grand juries as outmoded and superfluous. That would involve repealing the Fifth Amendment's guarantee of a grand jury's consideration before indictment, however, and no one has dared to tamper with the Bill of Rights in nearly 200 years...
...volatile issues of regionalism must also be resolved. "This is another world up here," says a lawyer in San Sebastian, the government's old summer capital in the heart of the Basque country. "The fascist occupation has not ended. The police and the Civil Guard are divorced from the people. It is a situation of hate." Franco never forgave the Basques and the Catalans for fighting against him during the civil war. As a result, political repression was heavy...
Nonetheless, the lobbyists frequently get measurable results. Dave Caney, a lawyer-architect and lobbyist for the American Institute of Architects, initially spent a frustrating week trying to talk with staffers at the Federal Energy Administration. His mission: to convince them that outside experts should do "energy audits" of schools and hospitals to see what forms of insulation and heating devices would make them more energy efficient. (Under the plan, $900 million would be granted to the states to carry out such programs.) Caney tried reaching Democratic staffers on the House energy and power subcommittee, but to no avail; they were...
Volunteer Cuckold. Elected and appointed officials make up New York's temporary government. This feeble mechanism is no match for the permanent government: bankers, builders, lawyer-fixers, back-room pols, landlords, union leaders. Larger commercial banks profited merrily for years in the city bond trade, both as underwriters and as holders of securities. When trouble surfaced, they quietly dumped the paper. Savings institutions redlined neighborhood after neighborhood, exporting loans to suburbia instead of reinvesting in the city...