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...nature of the presumed backlash was most succinctly summarized by an only partly ironic Ben Stein, a Los Angeles lawyer and economist whose E-mail to a New York Times columnist was quoted on that paper's op-ed page last Wednesday: "When O.J. gets off," he wrote, "the whites will riot the way we whites do: leave the cities, go to Idaho or Oregon or Arizona, vote for Gingrich... and punish the blacks by closing their day-care programs and cutting off their Medicaid." This grim vision was precisely what politicians feared to articulate. If they benefited from...
...When his bid for refugee status was rejected after the initial interview, Farhad appealed to the Refugee Review Tribunal, where he gave more details of his background. But immigration lawyers say applicants who appear to add new elements to their story at this stage are immediately under suspicion - Farhard was rejected there, too, and says the refugee review tribunal member hearing his case accused him of lying. What followed was a long legal fight over the tribunal's decision not to accept a letter he had received after his hearing from a senior Iranian cleric who supported Farhad's claim...
...circumstances embellish what they are told," says Mawson. Sometimes, he says, people don't tell their stories in full because they don't trust the migration agent. If an asylum seeker's application is rejected, there is no government funding for appeals to the courts. Applicants must find a lawyer themselves - in most cases, one who is willing to take their case pro bono. For someone in a detention center whose English is poor, this tends to be a haphazard process, says Nick Poynder: "It's just luck." Barrister Claire O'Connor says she's not allowed to visit...
...Without the volunteers, says migration agent and advocate Naleya Everson, "there are a lot of people who would not have got out" of detention. But when the detainees' hopes rest so heavily on non-professionals, most of them with little training, or on lawyers trying to fit cases in around their daily jobs, the danger is that "mistakes are inevitable," says lawyer O'Connor. That can hardly be reassuring to those among the nearly 900 men, women and children in detention who are still waiting for a decision on their future...
...where does this leave us? Why is the trial of one lawyer being so closely watched and contemplated...