Word: oteri
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...McKenney has decided not to test the drug himself because the situation has turned into a "circus act," Joseph S. Oteri, the defense attorney in the case, said yesterday...
...unique case originated last month when Oteri moved that his defendant's cocaine possession charge be dismissed on the grounds that the state statute for cocaine possession is unconstitutional...
...Outrageous," declares Harvard Law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz. "Stupid," says Boston Criminal Lawyer Joseph Oteri. "The third Watergate crime," charges New York Times Columnist William Safire...
...Boston colleagues wonder why he took on the case if he did not have full access to all the relevant information, especially when what was already known was so damning. After all, they point out, Solicitor General Robert Bork declined the job precisely for that reason. Criminal Lawyer Joseph Oteri has a theory to explain the lapse: "St. Clair is a gentleman, and he expects that when someone gives you his word, that person's telling the truth. Now how the hell can you sit the President of the U.S. down, grill him and tell...
...court. Because he spends extraordinarily long hours researching his cases, he is rarely surprised by the other side. Arguing without notes, he peers over half-lens glasses and subjects witnesses to aggressive and exhaustive cross-examinations, but never raises his voice or shows anger. Says Boston Attorney Joseph S. Oteri: "He's unflappable and extremely tenacious." Lawyer-Author George V. Higgins (The Friends of Eddie Coyle), who prosecuted two bank-fraud cases against defendants represented by St. Clair, recalls, "They were the most intense trials that I have ever experienced. He is a punishing adversary. His style...