Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gradually confessing to the murders of Nicole and Ron Goldman? Not according to the former football pro himself. ?I didn?t do it, so I?ve never thought about confessing,? he told the Associated Press Tuesday. But Daniel Petrocelli, the lawyer who successfully sued Simpson two years ago for $33.5 million over the deaths, claims to see evidence of a ?creeping confession? in O.J.?s media appearances. His biggest piece of evidence: An interview to be broadcast today on British television, in which Simpson jokingly attacks presenter Ruby Wax with a banana. ?That was astonishing behavior,? says Petrocelli, ?even...
What's next for Letourneau? New lawyer Howards has to devise an appeals strategy, which won't be easy. Washington State has led the nation in aggressively prosecuting sex criminals, and Howards starts out knowing little about Washington law. She made her name in Boston by helping win the release of a group of women who had murdered their abusive husbands. But Mary has told friends that she doesn't think the abuse she has accused Steve of should be part of the public debate. She is disappointed that Gehrke pinned her defense on her bipolar condition, and she doesn...
...moving to Florida to begin a new life. And that they did. Sources say Dad had a knack for charming wealthy women, and he lived a life of luxury in Palm Beach, where he called himself William Martin and variously passed himself off as a doctor, a Harvard-educated lawyer and a government agent. It worked just fine in the tony resort, where nobody gets too nosy about anyone else's millions. In fact, nobody asked much about any aspect of Martin's past. Not until April 16, when police came knocking...
...daughters declined comment but appeared in court with their father. Kurth condemned Fagan for living an "incredible charade." At the time of the divorce, he had accused her of being an alcoholic and an unfit mother (her lawyer denies both charges). She accused him of involvement in unspecified fraud, and she got custody...
Sources say Fagan's next wife was a widow who received a large settlement after her husband was hit by a car. Chris Larmoyeux, a Palm Beach lawyer, said Fagan was a devoted father, a well-liked neighbor, a director of the Palm Beach Opera company and a generous man with his money. "When you look at how he's raised his daughters and how they turned out, he's done an extraordinary job," Larmoyeux says...