Word: nesson
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...seemed perfectly natural for Charles. Nesson '60 to become a lawyer; his mother, father and aunt were lawyers, and, he says now, "coming from a family of lawyers I had decided early that I wanted to become one too. I really couldn't think of anything else I wanted...
...Nesson, now a friendly and somewhat shy professor of Law, is best known today for his defense of Daniel Ellsberg '52 in the Pentagon Papers trial of 1971 and 1972, in which Ellsberg's case was dismissed because of the burglary of Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office by E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy...
...also recently finished working with defense attorney William P. Homans Jr. '41 on the appeal for Dr. Kenneth Edelin's man-slaughter conviction for an abortion the doctor performed last year. The appeal will be argued this month. Nesson is now representing Morton Halperin, a former member of the National Security Staff, in a lawsuit against Secretary of State Henry Kissinger '50 on wiretapping charges, and is also representing filmmaker Emile de Antonio, who is making a movie about the Weather Underground, in lawsuits against the FBI and CIA on charges of invasion of privacy...
...energy for such demanding undertakings is not readily apparent in Nesson. He has a quiet, unassuming warm manner, but his enthusiasm surfaces when he immerses himself in his work...
...would have meant an implicit concession that the fetus had breathed at all, said Nesson...