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...ARTICLE "MAKING THE CASE" [SPECIAL REPORT, Oct. 16], we said that in August 1994, O.J. Simpson's lawyers discussed a plea bargain for manslaughter. We said one source said Simpson attorney Robert Shapiro and "F. Lee Bailey, the legendary trial lawyer brought on by Shapiro, were willing to entertain the idea." F. Lee Bailey denies that he ever considered the idea of a plea bargain. In fact, Mr. Bailey maintained the innocence of his client throughout the trial...
...independent counsel investigating former Clinton Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy obtained his first conviction: a guilty plea from a top Republican political insider and lobbyist. James Lake admitted to taking part in an illegal scheme to funnel money to the failed congressional campaign of the Secretary's brother, Henry Espy. Lake allegedly had been asked to help Espy out by a lobbyist for Sun Diamond Growers of California, a client company of Lake's own lobbying firm. The point of the exercise, presumably, was to curry favor with the Agriculture Secretary...
...have a tendency to deal with the deep problems of poverty and homelessness by pushing them away, out of sight and out of mind. I say with some confidence that every single person reading this editorial, at one time or another, has responded to a beggar's plea with a feeling of resentment. "Why are they bothering me today? Why can't they just leave me alone...
...Plea for Service...
...University of California, Berkeley. "It's still not quite akin to, 'Here's a fingerprint--how can you possibly contest it?' but it's way different than it was 12 months ago." Already overburdened courts are bracing for the prospect of more criminal defendants who refuse to cop a plea, opting instead for an O.J. dash for daylight before a jury. Potential jurors may be loath to perform a duty that in the Simpson case proved to be a kind of medieval torture...