Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Actually, police in New York suspect that Sindona may be more afraid of the charges against him in Italy, which are simpler than the 99 counts in the U.S. indictment. It sets forth a case that is scarcely less complicated than a New York subway map; criminal lawyers suggest that a jury might find the evidence too confusing to vote conviction. More over, one of the chief witnesses against him, Lawyer Giorgio Ambrosoli, the court-appointed liquidator of Sindona's bankrupt Italian empire, was killed last month by three gunmen in Milan, a day before he was to sign...
...month in undeclared income. Bob, a Santa Cruz, Calif bartender, declares his $5 hourly wage but not his $100 weekly take in tips. "You don't have to worry about getting caught," he explains. "It's your word against the IRS."-Jerry, a Cincinnati lawyer, provides "free advice" to an employment agency for domestics. In exchange, the agency sends a maid every week to clean his apartment-gratis. Jerry "makes" $1,500 a year in unreported income on the deal...
Stories of judicial arrogance are commonplace. When a Japanese-American lawyer requested additional tune for a trial, a federal judge responded: "How much time did you give us at Pearl Harbor?" Former Los Angeles Municipal Court Judge Noel Cannon, who painted her chambers pink, kept a pet Chihuahua by her side and was called the "Dragon Lady," once threatened to give a traffic officer "a vasectomy with a .38." While hearing a voting rights case brought by blacks in Alabama in the '60s, Federal Judge William Harold Cox exclaimed, "Who is telling these people that they can get in there...
...core of public trust is the belief that judges are impartial. New York Lawyer Simon Rifkind, a former judge, notes: "Impartiality is an acquired taste, like olives. You have to be habituated to it." Some judges never lose the attitudes they brought to the bench; lawyers complain that judges who were prosecutors favor the state, and judges who were defense lawyers favor the defendant...
...court hours?generally 10 to 4?have not changed since the 18th century when lawyers and judges were farmers and had to tend to their cows, says Boston Lawyer and Novelist (Friends of Eddie Coyle) George V. Higgins. "We do business in total and willful disregard for the telephone, the automobile and the computer. On opening day of a district court session, you can find 300 lawyers waiting around to get their cases scheduled, with their meters running." The trial date the judge wants often will not suit one or the other lawyer; when they finally agree, a witness will...