Word: pleadings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...going to be difficult to overcome the shock value when the jury heard the words 'bubonic plague' and realized it was being sent through the mail." ?-Attorney George Luther in June 1997, on the 11th-hour decision of his client, anthrax attack suspect Larry Wayne Harris, to plead guilty to wire fraud...
Earlier, Kaczynski had offered to plead guilty only if he were not placed in a prison psychiatric facility and if he retained the right to appeal the FBI's search of his cabin. Now he and his lawyers dropped those conditions. The prosecutors consulted with Attorney General Janet Reno in Washington and with Kaczynski's victims and their families. All agreed that a certain life sentence was preferable to the risks and delays of a jury trial...
...defense," said her attorney, William Ginsburg, after a brief meeting with the tough-talking Kenneth Starr Thursday. That could mean no immunity deal, which in turn raises the possibility that the ex-intern at the center of the affair will be called before Starr's grand jury ? only to plead the Fifth...
...daily jousts with the sound-bite-seeking White House press corps have become the most consistent pleasures of this scandal, and he's survived them, integrity intact, by keeping his believability and that of the President (and of his legal team) in separate rooms. McCurry is unafraid to plead ignorance, or to blame the lawyers when legalities nudge him out of the loop...
...life-style of the man on trial. Burrell overruled Kaczynski's objections to this plan on the grounds that the lawyers, not the client, should be in control of defense strategy. "The standard for the conduct of criminal cases says that the client has the choice of whether to plead guilty or not, or whether to take the stand or not," observes Stanford University law professor Barbara Babcock, "but I don't think that the tactical decision of what defenses to raise...