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...rallied immediately to his side with a $30,000 defense fund and all the influence they could bring to bear. New Yorker Jack : Litman, a stellar attorney, was hired to ' provide a defense. His case ultimately de| pended on Psychiatrist John Train, another brilliant performer on the criminal circuit, who argued that Herrin was suffering from both severe mental disease that impaired his ability to realize what le was doing. (Herrin testified repeatedly that he "wasn't feeling anything" when lie set out to kill his lover.) Thus, Gaylin points out, Litman was actually arguing two incompatible cases...
...leader of burglary team. Privately took blame for botched job, volunteered to be shot. Refused to cooperate with prosecutors, thus spent more time in prison (52 months) than any other Watergate figure. His 1980 autobiography, Will, was bestseller (125,000 hard-cover copies). Popular on college lecture circuit, where he gets $4,500 per appearance. Lives with wife in Fort Washington, Md. Works as consultant to corporations on how to protect industrial secrets...
...small ring out behind a large gambling lor for $20 million. Including ancillary payoffs, there may be as much as $50 million involved all around. The eyes of 32,000 people will glisten in the ring lights, and the blood of 2.5 million others will heat up in closed-circuit theaters, and much of the country, and some of the world, will be waiting to find out several things: whether Holmes, 32, was too old or Cooney, 25, too young. Whether the champion turned out to be too much boxer or the challenger did in fact catch him with...
...very decent guy." Mike Trainer, Welterweight Champion Sugar Ray Leonard's attorney, considers the White Hope demagoguery "bad basically, but also bad business. If you are going to promote a race war, you're going to discourage a lot of people from going to the closed-circuit theaters. I wouldn't take my wife to this fight...
...Should Susan have a baby or accept a tenured position at Swarthmore? Fenwick has a similar problem. A former employee of the CIA, he has published a book exposing some of the agency's skulduggeries. Now he must choose between capitalizing on his notoriety via the lecture circuit or accepting an adjunct professorship at the University of Delaware. As if these problems were not taxing enough, they are jointly writing a novel. They are in fact writing this novel...