Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...able to see when he started his opening statement. But once everyone was seated, Clarke stood up. "Mr. Kaczynski has a request that we alert the court to on his behalf," she said quietly. "He believes that he has no choice but to go forward as his own lawyer. It is a very heartfelt reaction, I believe, to the presentation of a mental-illness defense, a situation in which he simply cannot endure...
Insanity is its own manifesto. To a criminal trial lawyer, the term has several meanings and definitions. "Competent" to stand trial is actually a low-threshold legal matter. One merely has to be able to understand the nature and consequences of the charges and be able to assist in one's defense. It is obvious that Kaczynski should qualify on both counts. But his lawyers argue that the nature of his illness prevents him from accepting--and thus cooperating with--a mental-illness defense, and that, they argue, should make him incompetent to stand trial. As for defending himself, only...
Robert Bennett, the President's implacable lawyer, has started admitting it in public. The Paula Jones suit against Bill Clinton is really going to trial. When it gets to federal court in Little Rock--the scheduled starting date is May 27--it may finally get down to facts. Or at least fact finding. But in the meantime it remains a battle of images. Jones has a new one, with softer makeup and less agitated hair. And the White House spent a few days last week making the most of a politically convenient controversy over news pictures of the Clintons waltzing...
...Friday, Jan 25, 1996, at 11 p.m., Clive Stafford-Smith, a British-born defense attorney living in New Orleans, was awakened by a phone call. It was a lawyer named Willard Hill, whose teenage client, Shareef Cousin, had just been convicted of murder by a jury. Hill, a local defense lawyer, hadn't expected to lose, and now he needed help to keep Cousin off death row. Could Stafford-Smith help him organize an "emergency" case for the penalty hearing? Stafford-Smith yawned and signed...
...Former Friend. After Rowell was arrested and charged with nine armed robberies, he was asked by his lawyer, George Simno, if he had any information that might lessen his sentence. Rowell hesitated and said he knew something about "the hamburger murder"--and then gave up Cousin for the Gerardi murder. However, at Cousin's trial nine months later, Rowell recanted completely and testified that he had only said what prosecutors and his lawyer told...