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Authored by two second-year HLS students, Benjamin S. Litman and Pooja A. Bhatia `98-`99, the report rebukes MINUSTAH for adopting a “timid interpretation of its mandate,” and offers recommendations to ameliorate the situation...
Despite these difficulties, Litman was hopeful, citing progress made as soon as a day after the release of the report...
...least one non-UC member, Leah M. Litman ’06. attended and spoke against an amendment to increase the amount of party fund grants—from $100 to $150—at the expense of grants to student groups...
Those protections do not extend to other crimes. Indeed, Litman first made a name for himself in 1977 by getting a conviction on the lesser charge of manslaughter for Richard Herrin, a Yale graduate who killed his girlfriend Bonnie Garland with a hammer. "It was suggested," says her father Paul bitterly, "that she was a manipulative, rich, spoiled person who didn't treat this lovely man who murdered her nicely." Garland, a New York attorney, is working for the spread of legislation that gives victims the right to a voice at bail hearings and with the prosecution before a plea...
Defenders of defense attorneys answer that making unsavory accusations is often a lawyer's duty. Says Gillers: "If Litman were to say, 'Listen, / Chambers, this is your best shot, but I don't feel comfortable doing it because I feel it's morally wrong,' he would be guilty of malpractice." Another current trial in Manhattan, involving Subway Gunman Bernhard Goetz, demonstrates the legal value of blaming victims. Goetz offers self-defense as the reason why he shot four black youths who he suspected were preparing to rob him. His attorney has relentlessly highlighted the criminal intentions of the four...