Word: lawyering
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...because he was a symbol of the coverage of Afghanistan. He was the only reporter in Afghanistan. Sentiment and feelings do influence legal proceedings. We have to stand with him. As with cameraman Sami Al Hajj, who was arrested as he was entering Afghanistan. He is in Guantanamo. His lawyer told me he doesn't see anything against him. Sami was interrogated and all of the questions were about Al Jazeera. So, it is about Al Jazeera...
...lawyer, Daniel Saadat, points to the publicity generated by a best-selling book depicting the airport as crawling with radical Muslim employees who meet in clandestine prayer rooms in its terminals. Such scare-mongering, Saadat says, may have pressured security officials to take demonstrative action against questionable, but well publicized threats. "The way this has been handled is inverse of how investigations normally go," the counter-terror official says. "It makes you wonder what the real deal...
Saddam, though, is almost out of time. If his sentence is upheld by the appeals court, Iraqi and U.S. officials say the plan is for him to be hanged from the same gallows used for common criminals. That could change for security reasons, says a U.S. lawyer working closely with the court, but even a technical snafu probably won't be enough to save him now. Remember the man who slipped the noose, believing Allah had saved him? His reprieve didn't last long. "We hanged him," says an Iraqi official who watched as prison guards took down his body...
...Boston lawyer and then as the Clinton administration’s top civil rights enforcer, Deval L. Patrick ’78 investigated cases ranging from predatory lending to church burnings. But he first began acquiring real-life detective skills long before—as a freshman in Holworthy Hall, where he religiously watched the TV cop series “Kojak...
...will create incentives to promote stem cell research as a means of improving Massachusetts’ economy, and said he opposes a constitutional amendment to define marriage as the union of a man and a woman. Patrick, who graduated from Harvard Law School in 1982, worked as a lawyer for most of his career. In 1985, while an attorney for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, he helped overturn a death sentence for Carl Ray Songer, who was convicted of killing a state trooper. Healey ripped into Patrick’s role in the case with...