Word: menendezes
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According to the blitzkrieging defense attorney herself, the question observers were asking about LESLIE ABRAMSON all last week was, "Has she had a face-lift?" Actually, the lawyer for Erik Menendez underwent nothing more than a (very subtle) hair- lift, swapping her famous fusilli curls for a slightly more relaxed, swept-back look. Abramson thus followed the lead of O.J. prosecutor Marcia Clark, whose own makeover scored big in the court of public opinion. Abramson admits her new do was a concession to TV. "I like my hair its usual, old way," she says, "but it kept getting...
...MENENDEZ REDUX...
...successfully defending a rich parent killer, right? Right. Unless she is LESLIE ABRAMSON. "After 25 years of cross-examining, I know how to ask the right follow-up question," says Abramson of the show, in development for the fall of 1996--after she defends Erik Menendez for the second time...
...case is fantasy land,'' says Scott Wallace, special counsel to the National Legal Aid and Defender Association. "It's not real life in the criminal justice system." And it would be unfortunate if the public's avid consumption of this and other trials of the rich and famous -- the Menendez brothers, Claus von Bulow, William Kennedy Smith -- left the general impression that our criminal justice system routinely allows defendants a thorough and aggressive defense, in which no fact goes unchallenged or theory unexplored. In fact, the report that Spangenburg co-authored for the A.B.A. concluded that the indigent defense system...
Despite new flak in Congress for bypassing that body in fashioning his $20 billion Mexican rescue plan, President Clinton drew plaudits from U.S. and international investors. House Speaker Newt Gingrich and a few senior Democrats defended the president's move, but some members, such as Rep. Robert Menendez, (D-N.J), complained that Congress had been "shut out." Hard-right Republicans, meanwhile, are calling for an investigation of the Administration's role in Mexico's Dec. 20 decision to devalue the peso. Nonetheless, business leaders almost unanimously praised Clinton's move: International investors said the plan had likely staved...