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...show, complete with great clothes and great cheekbones. Unlike scripted dramas, however, these closing arguments went on for hours, with attorneys wielding charts and digressing repeatedly to help jurors sort through the 101 witnesses and 401 exhibits paraded concurrently before the brothers' separate juries. It then took Judge Stanley Weisberg more than an hour to issue jury instructions on the subtle variations in mental state that distinguish a first-degree * murder from a second-degree offense, a voluntary manslaughter from an involuntary killing -- all-important gradations that may spell the difference between life and death for Lyle, 25, and Erik...
...complex moral and political philosophy who not only tries to articulate it, but also believes it could be useful to the nation. "If she wants to talk about the discontents of her own climb, and the spiritual emptiness she feels, congratulations to her for rare candor," wrote Jacob Weisberg in the New Republic. "But her yuppie awakening doesn't mean everyone else is a moral failure...
...Weisberg says the number of law students beganto rise 20 years ago as funding for academia beganto dwindle and demand for professors fell...
...Weisberg says, "it was far moreattractive to go into the Ph.D. program. Law andmedical schools were seen as trade schools...
...today many talented people choose law overacademic. Weisberg says he decided to go to lawschool after spending six years as a professor ofEnglish during the "vague, directionlessspiritlessness...