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...Legras' case. But many others disagreed. The case spurred the formation of a Paris-based Movement for Legitimate Self-Defense, which counts several lawyers and former magistrates among its members. Their goal: a broader legal definition of legitimate self-defense. Says the movement's founder, former senior magistrate Francis Romerio: "Burglars can choose the time and place of their activities; police cannot. So it is only legitimate that a citizen should be able to defend his family and property the way he chooses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Burglars and Booby Traps | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

...Endzone snap out of his 40 per cent completion average blues? Did Teen Angel have a chance when he went back for his girl's high school ring? PRINCETON-BROWN -- I went to school with Princeton's fullback, Romerio Perkins. He used to fumble the way Marv Throneberry dropped pick-off throws to first, Now he plays in the worst Princeton backfield since the days of the Flying Wedge, and on a Princeton team with an excellent chance to lose to Brown for the first time in 18 years. The New York Times won't be double teaming this...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: The Ballad of Endzone Crone | 11/4/1972 | See Source »

...objection. "The defendant speaks and understands French perfectly," he protested. "Otherwise, how could he have finished his medical studies? Besides, he answered pretrial questioning in French." Retorted Gourvès' lawyer, Henri Leclerc: "He may have forgotten his French in jail." The chief judge, François Romerio, asked Gourvès if he had anything to say. "Ne gomzin nemet e brezhoneg [I will speak only in Breton]," replied the doctor. "I withdraw your right to speak," said Romerio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITTANY: Bevet Breiz/ | 10/23/1972 | See Source »

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