Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that King's murder was a conspiracy. Unless he talks soon, whatever information he has will go with him to his grave. That's why King's family last week joined Ray's long-standing campaign to have his day in court. A trial could happen if Ray's lawyer, William Pepper, can persuade a Tennessee court later this month to approve ballistics tests on the high-powered rifle Ray is believed to have used--and prove it's not the murder weapon. As King's son Dexter, who heads the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Social Change...
...Indonesia's Lippo Group, which reportedly offered him $250,000 a year for work that remains a mystery. Next, at the suggestion of a Democratic fund raiser, the Los Angeles Airport Commission paid him $8,250 a month to lobby the Transportation Department. These were lucky breaks for a lawyer facing possible criminal charges. Republicans have wondered aloud whether these jobs were part of a "hush-money" campaign directed by the White House to keep Hubbell happy and dissuade him from telling investigators what he knows about the Whitewater affair. Now it seems that independent counsel Kenneth Starr wonders...
Beijing may raise a ruckus against Western countries that take in Zhang and the others, but privately the government may also be relieved. Kenneth Chow, a Hong Kong lawyer on Beijing's handpicked advisory committee, says the dissidents would probably be warned to toe the line. If they don't, "you either arrest them or let them wander about and create damage. You don't want to do either, so the best way is someone else's taking them...
...Homans] was a great lawyer and a real gentleman," said Anthony Gemma, the former assistant district attorney who prosecuted Womack last year...
...language in the report stipulating that such profiles not be based on race, ethnicity or gender, civil libertarians fear that people of Middle Eastern origin in particular will be singled out. "The proposed profiling system is invasive of privacy and likely to be discriminatory," said American Civil Liberties Union lawyer Gregory Nojeim. He argued that airlines can only prevent a terrorist from checking a bomb and then skipping the flight by matching every bag to its owner: "The airlines have prevailed on this commission not to go to full luggage match because they don't want...