Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proposals to move the entire trial temporarily to California or to take Nixon's testimony by closed-circuit television or on video tape were under consideration, assuming that he recovers sufficiently for any questioning at all. Defendant Robert Mardian was seeking a separate, later trial because his chief lawyer, David Bress, was undergoing tests for an undetermined throat ailment...
...Outrageous," declares Harvard Law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz. "Stupid," says Boston Criminal Lawyer Joseph Oteri. "The third Watergate crime," charges New York Times Columnist William Safire...
...defense, as Sirica upheld the wide-ranging manner in which Mitchell's attorney, William Hundley, was quizzing Dean despite objections raised by the chief prosecutor, James Neal. Sirica has, in fact, frequently ignored objections by both sides in giving all attorneys great latitude in their questioning. Massachusetts Trial Lawyer Richard K. Donahue observes that Sirica has "broadened the ability of the defense to cross-examine beyond anything to which they'd been accustomed. He may be thinking that if he is evenhanded, then nobody can accuse him of being prejudicial...
...know what will happen," said the man who is becoming one of America's longest-playing imports. "People read in the paper that I've got 30 days left, and then they see me and say, 'Why, are you still here?' I guess my lawyer keeps appealing, and it keeps going on and on." While the singer-songwriter was taping his newest album, more than a score of old John Lennon-Paul McCartney songs were being dusted off for a Nov. 14 debut as a rock musical, Sgt. Pepper Lonely Hearts Club Band on the Road...
...There's a growing awareness of records and abuses of the individual's right to privacy," Barry Hock, a lawyer with the Mass Advocacy Center who has coordinated the center's work with student files, says. "Student records are a more critical area because they affect just about everyone at some time...