Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...victories, by getting the venue for the trial moved out of Oklahoma and by convincing Judge Matsch that McVeigh should be tried separately from Nichols. It was the first time the judge had ever agreed to sever the cases of two defendants. "Stephen Jones is a ferociously intelligent trial lawyer," says Mimi Wesson, a professor of criminal law at the University of Colorado and a former U.S. Attorney in Denver from 1980 to 1982. "I have read some of his briefs in the McVeigh case, and there is some very fine legal work...
...scheme to trick Jewell into being interviewed by saying it was part of a training tape. Freeh was monitoring the investigation closely and called to insist that the agents inform Jewell of his Miranda rights. At that point Jewell smelled something funny, stopped talking and asked to see his lawyer. When the case against him collapsed, veterans blasted Freeh for botching their scheme to trick him into talking. Never mind that they were trying to trick the wrong...
...defense motions, meritorious or not. Already next week there will be a motion to reopen the case of Jeffrey MacDonald, the Green Beret doctor now serving a life term in prison for killing his pregnant wife and two daughters in the infamous Fatal Vision murders in 1970. MacDonald's lawyer, Harvey Silvergate, says the motion will be based in part on affidavits of FBI agent Michael Malone, formerly a lab examiner, submitted during the lawyer's attempt to reopen the MacDonald case. According to last week's report, Malone exhibited "inexcusable" behavior in the corruption hearing filed against former judge...
...chief prober Sando Mazor. He conceded in a covering letter that much of the evidence against Netanyahu came from just one "central witness," who, Israeli press reports say, is Dan Avi-Yitzhak. He was a strong candidate for Attorney General and also happened to be Deri's trial lawyer until Deri forced the Bar-On choice...
...millions of Jewish families hold Passover Seders this week, in many households the ritual celebration of deliverance from Egypt will be followed by talk of a new predicament. Prompted partly by a debate between two pugnacious lawyer-authors--and partly by dire statistics, which, over years, have become as rote as the Passover Haggadah--a generation will look at its children and speculate whether its grandchildren will be Jews...