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...Circuit Court of Appeals' repugnant Oct. 27 decision that the constitutional right to a lawyer is satisfied even if the court-appointed lawyer is asleep. The court rejected an appeal from the Texas courts in which the lawyer appointed to represent Calvin Burdine in a capital case had slept through a large portion of the trial. Although the facts were uncontested, and although other appeals courts have found that a sleeping lawyer is constitutionally equivalent to no lawyer at all, the 5th Circuit found that Burdine did not deserve a new trial. It argued that Burdine could not prove that...
During the night I slept 15 minutes on the couch in the Prime Minister's suite. The Prime Minister went into the bedroom. I and his personal assistant, Eldad Yaniv, took a couch each. Then we were called again to meet President Clinton at 4 a.m. Tuesday. For the first time, we learned that there was going to be a deal...
...chimney. Count Rumford's 18th century fireplace design (shallower, built to throw more heat back into the room) helps a bit, but the basic idea remains Paleolithic. There have been times during subzero winter power blackouts when we have pulled a futon next to the fire and slept there, curled up as close as we could get to the heat without igniting the blankets. On the other hand, the wood stove in the kitchen radiates efficient gemutlichkeit--a cloying heat, like the house on a Thanksgiving afternoon that has gone on too long...
...That's not how it works," he said. "The advisers on executions in Texas agreed that every defendant had been proved guilty, even the one whose lawyer slept through the trial. That's how Bush can be so cheerfully confident that he offed the right guys...
...During the night I slept 15 minutes on the couch in the prime minister's suite. The prime minister went into the bedroom. I and his personal assistant, Eldad Yaniv, took a couch each. Then we were called again to meet President Clinton at 4 a.m. Tuesday. For the first time, we learned that there was going to be a deal...