Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...groups. He and his wife Elizabeth do not socialize much, and, apparently to avoid conflicts of interest, he often eats alone at law conventions. However, he is devoted to at least two things: his alma mater, the University of Michigan, and his hero, Atticus Finch, the small-town white lawyer assigned the unpopular task of defending a black man against rape charges in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Finch does so fervently but loses the case. Matsch describes Finch as "the opponent of oppression, the paradigm of propriety, the dean of decent citizens and the core of his community...
Jones is an intelligent, wily lawyer, and he has a strategy: to convince the jury that the the infamous John Doe No. 2 is still at large and may really have been the one responsible for the bombing. The prosecution presented no witnesses who testified to seeing the bomb being constructed, nor did it call anyone who placed McVeigh at the crime scene. Several people, though, have made statements to the FBI that they saw a man resembling John Doe No. 2 with McVeigh in the days before the bombing. So Jones does have an opening. But can he exploit...
...between 8:59:40 and 8:59:50 a.m. Absolutely. Cross him, and you will have a tale to tell. "He's virtually always the brightest person sitting in that room," says Larry Pozner, a Denver attorney and a vice president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. "In Denver, if you're going to be a federal trial lawyer, one stage is to be yelled at by Judge Matsch." Says Pozner: "I've also seen agents of the Federal Government deeply regret they have come up short...
...What's the objection?" Matsch growled, when prosecutor Joseph Hartzler raised one amid the Oklahoma-bombing proceedings. At mid-sentence, Matsch cut him off: "There is no basis in that! Overruled!" Hartzler offered no challenge. Says Bob Miller, a Denver lawyer: "He doesn't allow the government to wear the white hat." While Matsch has allowed McVeigh's defense a number of procedural victories, the judge remains tough with Jones and his associates. During jury selection, he berated a defense lawyer, calling his questioning "incomprehensible." The judge, who lost a daughter in a freak accident in 1992, has not gone...
...letter is "wrong in its conclu- sions, wrong in its assumptions and inaccurate in its facts and foolish in its rhetoric," said Michael F. Butler '57, a Washington lawyer who represents Shleifer and Hay, in a written statement...