Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...parked at the Statehouse every day and walked down to my lawyer's office," he told the Herald. "I went up to my office either in the morning or after the trial...
...murder charge was dropped in the first Lucas case to be prosecuted since he changed his tune: the 1983 ax slaying of a 72-year-old El Paso woman, Librada Apodaca. Judge Brunson Moore found his confession involuntary and | ruled Lucas had not knowingly waived his right to a lawyer. "Good treatment and perks" motivated the confession, Judge Moore concluded after his ruling. "You can catch as many flies with honey as with a fly swatter...
...center of the confusion, and the controversy, are the human rights activists, whom Aquino admires for their idealism and especially for the faithfulness with which they stood by her husband during the dark days of martial law. Ninoy's lawyer Joker Arroyo is her executive secretary; Ninoy's cellmate Jose Diokno is chairman of the Presidential Commission on Human Rights; Ninoy's friend Locsin is her speechwriter. Many people feel that Aquino is too protective of these advisers and that they are too protective of her. The prime target of these charges is the principled but overworked Arroyo, who sometimes...
...advise the government. The names of the council's 56 participants were released last week, but the roster was not as representative as some observers had hoped. The roll includes 17 Communist Party members but no top leaders of the outlawed trade union Solidarity; Wladyslaw Sila-Nowicki, 73, a lawyer who defended Solidarity members in several trials, is expected to serve as the group's representative. The Roman Catholic Church declined to nominate any delegates. Though exact details of the council's role were not announced, meetings must be convened by Jaruzelski, and published reports will reflect only the collective...
Meanwhile, the Communists began a barrage of propaganda, complete with appearances by N.D.F. leaders on TV talk shows. Said one Manila lawyer: "The N.D.F. is the propaganda winner here. They are all over the papers and airwaves -- and free of charge...