Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Barbie's defense during the trial was in the hands of his controversial lawyer, Verges, a flamboyant Marxist with strong sympathies for Third World causes. The lawyer, who is known for taking on the legal defense of accused terrorists, brought in to help him Jean-Martin M'Bemba, 45, an attorney from Brazzaville in the Congo, and Nabil Bouaita, 36, a lawyer from Algiers. In the closing days of the trial, Verges and his two aides began the long-advertised attempt to put France rather than Barbie on trial. Verges sought to shift the focus of attention from Barbie...
...Bemba cited the 1947 murder of thousands of rebellious Africans by French settlers in Madagascar. "Can we judge Barbie after what happened then?" asked M'Bemba. "If there is a race that has been perpetually oppressed from slavery until now, it is the Negro race." When the Congolese lawyer said he had shaken Barbie's hand as a mark of respect when he met him, a murmur ran through the courtroom. M'Bemba snapped back, "I can understand your reaction. You have not lived what I have lived...
...uproar occurred in court when Lawyer Bouaita described himself as a "Semite defending an anti-Semite." He drew a comparison between Barbie's actions in the SS and alleged Israeli complicity in the Sabra and Shatila massacres in Lebanon in September 1982. "There is no hierarchy of atrocity," he said, "no discrimination between cemeteries, no differences between suffering." When Bouaita denounced the "nazification of the Jewish-Israeli people" and accused the Israelis of responsibility for a "Palestinian genocide," the courtroom erupted with whistles and shouts...
...written some opinions strongly upholding free-speech rights. He supported the press in a much cited 1984 libel suit against Syndicated Columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, proposing that "those who place themselves in a political arena must accept a degree of derogation that others need not." Says Libel Lawyer Bruce Sanford: "There hasn't been an opinion more favorable to the press in a decade...
Since he was fired in November, North has divided his time between his two- acre farmstead in rural Virginia and his lawyer's downtown Washington offices, with perfunctory appearances at Marine headquarters at the Pentagon, where he has a desk in the Office of Manpower and Policy Planning. For once, North is not working overtime. He has ten months to go before reaching the 20- year Marine retirement plateau...