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That was not likely to satisfy civil-liberties advocates, who can point to numerous cases in which underpaid, overworked or inexperienced defense lawyers missed crucial evidence that surfaced only on appeal. Biden and Attorney General Janet Reno tried to head off that objection by offering to guarantee and fund competent, experienced lawyers for defendants in capital cases. "Good-quality defense counsel in death-penalty cases reduces trial errors," says a law-enforcement representative who took part in the negotiations. "We can live with that. We can even live with federally mandated counsel standards if they're not intrusive...
...bill, particularly since it incorporated so many pieces of their platform, they were unwilling to cede him so valuable an issue. G.O.P. lawmakers complained that the amount of money proposed for new prisons, $700 million, fell far short. They also wanted to expand mandatory-sentencing guidelines, which Attorney General Reno loudly, adamantly opposed...
Attorney General Reno, however, is confident that stricter gun control is possible. "The NRA doesn't particularly care for me," she told TIME last week, "But it's important for the NRA to understand what this stuff has done to America. I just think the American people are sick and fed up with what assault weapons have done. I can remember the first time I saw an assault weapon. It is deadly. It is a horrible thing. The American people have come to realize what these weapons are doing on our streets. They are saying, Enough is enough is enough...
Chief of Staff Mack McLarty did not want to disturb the 27 little pieces of torn yellow paper carefully assembled on the table. And so last Tuesday, as Attorney General Janet Reno entered his corner office for a meeting, he gingerly took his seat at the head of the table. The day before, the scraps had come fluttering out of the briefcase of Vincent Foster Jr. as it was being packed for his widow. They may contain all that will ever be known about his final thoughts...
...group gathered was concerned with a specific issue. Was there material in the note protected by Executive privilege? After a nearly 60- minute discussion, the group -- which included Reno's deputy Philip Heymann , -- decided that no such protection was involved. At 8 p.m. a U.S. Park policeman arrived and swept the scraps off the mahogany table into a White House envelope...