Word: clients
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Garwood's attorney, Dermot Foley, claims that his client is "desperately" in need of psychiatric care. "His defense is an absolute denial of the charges," says Foley. "There is no evidence against Bobby. He was held in Viet Nam against his will." Foley says that Garwood was shot during his capture and "surrounded by death" during the 14 years he spent in Viet Nam. "One particular P.O.W. death still overwhelms Bobby," says Foley. "He still has trouble talking about it, but when the story comes out it will greatly help explain what he did during those 14 years...
...nephew. Benson Ford Jr., 29, who is already involved in a legal battle to gain control of a $7.5 million inheritance, including roughly $6 million in Ford stock, announced that he was planning several suits against Ford officials. His choice of counsel: Roy Cohn. The lawyer describes his new client as yet another stockholder "who wants to end the autocratic regime" at Ford...
...Alice a ride, the defendant's lawyer started asking her questions about her penchant for hitchhiking with men. Citing Michigan's shield law, the prosecutor successfully objected to that line of questioning. Unable to discredit Alice's testimony, the defense lawyer quickly made a deal: his client would plead guilty to criminal sexual conduct in the first degree if the prosecutor agreed to drop charges of possessing a firearm and robbery. Still to be sentenced, the man will probably get 15 to 20 years...
William P. Homans Jr. '41, Edelin's lawyer, said after the trial that his client was convicted because the jury was convicted that a fetus should be considered alive after it has been separated from the mother's placenta inside the womb...
...that Viet Nam was finally being forced to recall some of its units from Cambodia. That suggested a possible Chinese success in drawing support away from the Viet Nam-backed government of Heng Samrin, which has been under in creasing pressure from insurgent forces loyal to China's client, defeated Premier...