Word: prosecutors
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...move back to the classroom as a logical progression. At Princeton, he oversaw the undergraduate judicial system, acting in a highly legalistic capacity. Onek estimates that he personally participated in 1,000 disciplinary cases over the course of his Princeton career, acting alternately as judge, mediator, advocate and prosecutor...
Richardson, who can claim to have held more cabinet posts than any living American, is probably best known for the one thing he didn't do: fire Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox '34 in October, 1973. He claims to be most proud of the largely inconclusive Law of Sea Treaty--he headed the U.S. delegation--which Reagan scuttled upon taking office...
French law offered little guidance, and so the whole case rested on exquisitely philosophical arguments about what the dead man's frozen sperm really was. An organ transplant? An inheritable piece of property? State Prosecutor Yves Lesec, siding with the sperm bank, argued that it was part of the dead man's body, even though separated from that body. The dead man had a basic right to "physical integrity," the prosecutor concluded, saying in effect that his widow had no more right to his sperm than to his feet or ears. Not so, retorted Parpalaix's lawyer...
...some way, candidates like Ferraro unwittingly invite this kind of treatment. She did not get to where she is by dint of a cause, ideology or even issue. Ferraro got to where she is because of who she is: daughter of poor immigrants, teacher, lawyer, mother, prosecutor-political assets she is not shy to exploit. She claims these to be the source of her values, and it was these values and those sources that she displayed so prominently in her acceptance speech in San Francisco. They are, in fact, the only discernible theme of her campaign...
...Prosecutors insist that in the unraveling of high-level criminal conspiracies, it usually takes a scoundrel to catch one. Says H. Richard Uviller, a criminal-law professor at Columbia University and former Manhattan prosecutor: "You'd love to have witnesses who are all picked for their virtue and sterling characters, but it doesn't always happen that way. And so you take them where you find them." Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Perry made the same point to the De Lorean jury in the words of an old lawyers' axiom: "For a plot hatched in hell...