Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...YORK: While rumors fly unimpeded on the Internet, there is still surprisingly little that we know beyond basic biographical details about Monica Lewinsky. The 24-year-old former White House intern and Pentagon staffer will likely take the Fifth in her deposition to Paula Jones' lawyers Friday, and she's taking the same attitude to the media. Not even her L.A. lawyer, who is talking to everyone, will confirm or deny the affair: William Ginsburg would only say his client is "distraught" ? which is, in all probability, the understatement of the year...
WASHINGTON: Vernon Jordan reeks of the Establishment. The civil rights lawyer-cum-presidential confidant is on the board of so many major companies that a recent Washington Monthly described him as "the true center of the universe." And yet, he has consistently rejected all the Clinton cabinet posts he was offered, including the chance to become the first black Attorney General. "I do what I want to do," he insists. Establishment and integrity - an intriguing mixture that made his words worth listening to when Jordan waded into the Monica Lewinsky media circus Thursday afternoon...
...Such evidence, called "Brady material" after a precedent-setting case, is supposed to be turned over to ensure a fair trial, based on all the facts. Many defense attorneys around New Orleans say Connick's office continues to flout the law. In the past three months, says local defense lawyer Rick Tessier, Connick's office has withheld favorable evidence three times in three separate capital cases in which he's been involved. "Capital cases are so political that winning becomes far more important for the average D.A.," says Denise LeBoeuf, an attorney specializing in capital cases for the nonprofit Loyola...
...aging perhaps makes it easier to flip the switch or pull the lever. But it also makes it harder to connect the criminal to the crime. "By the time the state gets around to executing these people, the kid who committed the crime no longer exists," says lawyer David Bruck, who is handling the appeal of Joseph Hudgins, 22, who was convicted of murder at age 17 in South Carolina and sentenced to death. "It is almost as if in some nightmarish procedure the state has arbitrarily substituted one person for another prior to the execution...
...potential $2 million zeppelin of a trial balloon floated last month by the Jones camp is still hanging around. Putting out the President's message while simultaneously claiming that he was speaking against the advice of Clinton's lawyer, James Carville hinted on "Meet the Press" that Clinton might be settle if Jones would agree to "never utter another public word or make another public appearance...