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...JACKSON, 37; for allegedly violating a promise not to talk about a settlement concerning sensational 1993 allegations of child molestation; in Santa Barbara, California. The father of the boy involved says Jackson violated the deal when he appeared in a 1995 PrimeTime Live interview. Jackson says the suit is "meritless...
Jonathan Shapiro, the Boston attorney representing Cole, says the charges are meritless, and he has filed a motion to dismiss them. In one brief, he argues that the assault charge is inappropriate because of a court decision holding that body parts cannot be considered dangerous weapons. Shapiro also says the alleged crime does not constitute larceny...
Though appeals courts have been lenient in ruling that defense attorneys have done an adequate job -- judges deemed meritless all of Coleman's claims of ineffective assistance by counsel -- it's the rare court-appointed lawyer who is skilled in the complexities of capital cases. "This is a highly specialized area of law," says Harold G. Clarke, chief justice of the Georgia Supreme Court, who has reviewed many death sentences. "Even a good criminal lawyer may not have had much, if any, experience in capital cases." Court- appointed attorneys must also be willing to settle for modest fees that rarely...
...press has learned from experience that there are two kinds of expensive libel suits: the ones it loses and the ones it wins. Even meritless complaints can lead to costly court battles, a threat that can inhibit even the wealthiest news organizations. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court gave the news media important relief with a ruling that encourages judges to dismiss unworthy suits before they go to trial...
...newsmen chose to protect their sources rather than respond in person to charges they dismissed as meritless. But the prosecutor used the trial to blast the "bourgeois" press for pouring "barrels of black paint on a foreign country." And the dissident in question, convicted Georgian Nationalist Zviad Gamsakhurdia, duly appeared in court, accompanied by two guards, viewed the film of his confession, and pronounced it undoctored...