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...Serbs' relentless assault on Srebrenica, hopes had begun to rise that the U.N. would show itself to be made of still sterner stuff. In Britain, one of the five permanent members of the Security Council, public sympathy was running in favor of more determined action, led by an impassioned plea from Lady Margaret Thatcher to exempt Bosnian Muslims from the arms embargo and allow them to acquire the means to defend themselves. "There is nothing moral or right about leaving a people defenseless," she fumed. "We cannot just let things go on like this. It is evil...
...there is." And Nesler's sister claimed that Driver, who had a previous conviction for child molestation, had "smirked" when he entered the courtroom. Almost lost in the hubbub was the district attorney, who called the shooting "reprehensible." Nesler, who was freed on $500,000 bond, will enter a plea this week...
...Felonies worry you to death, misdemeanors work you to death," says Mel Tennenbaum, a division chief in the Los Angeles public defenders' office. "We're underappreciated and misunderstood." L.A. lawyer David Carleton had his teeth loosened by a client who didn't like his plea arrangement. Manhattan's Judith White needs all seven days of the week to handle her load of drug cases -- a task she continues to tackle even since a crack addict murdered her father four years ago. When Lynne Borsuk filed a motion with Georgia's Fulton County Superior Court seeking to reduce her load...
...offenses that carry up to a life sentence. "The more time you spend on a case, the less money you make," says attorney David Steingold, a 14-year veteran. Hence lawyers have learned to plead cases quickly and forgo time-consuming motions, a phenomenon known among lawyers as the "plea mill...
During the Reagan-Bush years, the U.S. Supreme Court tried to seize most opportunities to chip away at abortion rights. Not so lately. Last Monday the Justices refused to hear Louisiana's plea to revive its defiant 1991 law, struck down by lower courts, which would have banned most abortions and sent noncomplying doctors to prison. The action, the second such within four months, suggests that despite bitter disagreement, for now the high bench is sticking by last term's compromise words: states may restrict abortion, but not ban it or impose "undue" barriers...