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...year-old lawyer left his job in the D.A.'s office last January, after leaking to the press that there was dissension on the prosecution team over the soundness of the case. The charges against the defendants are based mainly on interviews with the children and physical traces of sexual activity; no other substantial corroboration like pornographic photos, was uncovered. Under cross-examination during the hearing, the children's stories seemed to Stevens to unravel. He came to agree with the defense that an expert on child sex abuse had asked leading and suggestive questions during pretrial investigations. "They...
Soon after leaving his job, Stevens was approached by the Manns with a book- and-movie contract. They saw him as a leading character, they said, perhaps played by Robert Redford?an ambitious lawyer but one whose conscience would not let him use a tainted case to advance his career. During long hours at the Manns' home in Beverly Hills, Stevens spilled his thoughts into a tape recorder. That material, it was agreed, would be considered confidential until after the trial. But some of what Stevens was saying seemed as if it might help the defense...
...early September, after being advised by their lawyers that they might be withholding vital information, the Manns turned over the tapes to the defense without clearing their action with Stevens. Later they gave them to the state attorney general's office. "We had no choice," says Mann. News of the tapes distressed parents of the 13 children involved in the case. A lawyer for the families has asked the state attorney general to investigate whether Stevens violated a state law that bars a prosecutor from assisting in the defense of a case in which he had been involved. Others question...
THEODORE V. WELLS JR., lawyer for I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, who faces five felony counts of lying to federal investigators, saying that Libby was a fall guy for key White House political adviser Karl Rove...
...often, when you see a pretty woman sitting alone at a cafe in Bangkok, it's easy to assume she's a hooker - even though it often turns out that she's a lawyer or an investment banker or a software executive. But in this sex-saturated city, where the red-light district is not a district as much as a web of go-go bars that covers the entire city, the rush to judgment is understandable. No modern capital is as open about its flesh trade as Bangkok is. Nor does my gender preclude me from generous offers. Touts...