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CONTEXT Clinton notoriously issued 140 pardons on his last day in office, including one to tax evader Marc Rich--whose lawyer at the time just happened to be Scooter Libby...
Then, says Kennedy, came "my 15 minutes of fame." The Big Picture - featuring a New York City lawyer on the run from a crime of passion - brought him a $1.1 million deal from New York's Hyperion Books and billing as the next John Grisham. He got $1 million for his next thriller, The Job, about an ambitious young salesman enmeshed in a web of deceit. Like its predecessor, the book sold decently but failed to earn back the advance. "On the book tour, I could sense it was tanking," Kennedy recalls. "I was 41. I decided I was going...
...SCOTLAND: However careful the wording of the SCCRC report, it's hard not to take "miscarriage of justice" as criticism of the three-judge panel that convicted Megrahi. Robert Black, the Scottish lawyer who designed the court structure at Camp Zeist in the Netherlands (a political compromise between Scotland, the U.S. and Libya so the case could be heard) calls Megrahi's 2001 conviction "an absolute and utter outrage." But if, indeed, Megrahi has suffered a miscarriage of justice, the appeal may be a chance for Scotland to redeem itself, says Black. Some changes have been made already. First...
...Seattle's high schools are already racially diverse (Chief Justice Roberts seems to agree), and that the city's overall diversity will keep them that way. "Sixty percent of students are minority, and 80 percent of them want to go to the top five schools," says the parents' lawyer, Harry Korrell. "So you're going to get a heavy minority representation no matter what." The district, though, argues that segregation in the city's neighborhoods will soon be reflected in the high schools now that race isn't a factor in assigning students. Whether or not the district's right...
...received only three months' pay last year. The country also has no prison. In the squalid lockup in the judicial police compound, 66-year-old Aboubakar Seidi stumbles to his feet from a grimy sponge mat, and tells me he has spent five months there with no trial or lawyer's visit. He's suspected of knowing who killed a military commander last January, but he insists: "I know nothing...