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...Friday, Jan 25, 1996, at 11 p.m., Clive Stafford-Smith, a British-born defense attorney living in New Orleans, was awakened by a phone call. It was a lawyer named Willard Hill, whose teenage client, Shareef Cousin, had just been convicted of murder by a jury. Hill, a local defense lawyer, hadn't expected to lose, and now he needed help to keep Cousin off death row. Could Stafford-Smith help him organize an "emergency" case for the penalty hearing? Stafford-Smith yawned and signed...
...Epps arrived too late to testify as a character witness, and because Cousin had, a few weeks earlier, accepted a 4-count plea on some robbery charges (an agreement he now claims was coerced), he was effectively portrayed by prosecutors as a hardened criminal and was sentenced to death. Stafford-Smith has been working on Shareef's appeal ever since. "When I was a kid, I read about America's having the death penalty," he says. "I couldn't believe it. I was absolutely horrified. I thought I'd come over here and straighten out the colonies. I'm afraid...
...which laid down the law for the administration of most federal student-aid programs including Pell grants and Stafford loans, comes up for a periodic review in January. Reauthorization of the act was last performed in 1992, and it affects the administration-not the appropriation-of education funding...
...study comes at a critical time for higher education lobbyists, when the Higher Education Authorization Act of 1965, the law that created most federal spending programs for higher education, including Pell grants, Stafford loans and other mainstays of college financing...
...study comes at a critical time for higher education lobbyists, when the Higher Education Authorization Act of 1965, the law that created most federal spending programs for higher education, including Pell grants, Stafford loans and other mainstays of college financing...