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Then there are the books. Five. Then the clients: Anatoly Scharansky, Claus Von Bulow, Leona Helmsley, Michael Milken, Jim Bakker, Mike Tyson, Penthouse, Frank Snepp, John Landis, John DeLorean, David Crosby, Patricia Hearst, the Tison brothers, various death row inmates, Rabbi Meir Kahane....There are more...
...self-fulfilling prophecy. The media only focuses headline cases. For example, when we won the case of the two boys on death row--it's called the Tison case--I couldn't get any attention. None of the media would focus on that case because they weren't famous. And when we won some other cases in this office that we're very proud of, the focus was always on famous cases. So you get yourself in a little bit of a catch-22 when you take famous cases because they assume that's all you're taking. Most...
...execution of certain defendants convicted under "felony murder" laws. Those laws, on the books in most states, allow murder convictions against defendants who took part in a felony in which a killing occurred, even if they did not carry out the killing themselves. The new case involved Ricky Tison and his brother Raymond, who as teenagers in 1977 helped their father and his cell mate to escape from an Arizona prison. Soon after, they commandeered a car, and the two convicts killed all four family members who had been in it, including a two-year-old. After fleeing a shoot...
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, writing for the same 5-to-4 majority that lined up in McCleskey, ruled that "major participation" in a felony "combined with reckless indifference to human life" is sufficient to justify a death penalty. For one thing, she noted, the Tison boys knew that their father was serving a life sentence for the murder of a prison guard during an earlier escape attempt. She sent back their case for an Arizona court to consider whether such reckless indifference had been a factor...
...Religion: Stanley J. Tambiah, professor of Anthropology: Robert P. Bergman, associate professor of Fine Arts: David Dressler, lecturer on Biochemistry and Biology: Melvin Joel Konner, associate professor of Biological Anthropology: Joel Porte. professor of English and American Literature: Raymond Siever, professor of Geology; Paul Starr, assistant professor of Sociology: Tison Street, associate professor of Music; and Ernest E. Williams, professor of Biology...