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...claims of unfettered access to Packwood's writings. "By definition, a diary is a conversation with yourself," says Stephen Gillers, a professor of ethics at New York University School of Law. "Allowing the state to get your diary is allowing the state to get into your mind." Professor Yale Kamisar of the University of Michigan Law School adds, "Why should a person have to divulge self-incriminating statements merely because he chose to write them down rather than keep them sealed in his head...
Given the ruling last week, Kevorkian seems to have the upper hand -- for the moment. "As a practical matter he may now be untouchable unless a new law is passed and then we start all over again," says University of Michigan law professor Yale Kamisar. "He now has the police and prosecutors off-balance." But they would love to take him on. "Every person from the Governor on down has been attacked personally about being a Nazi or a member of a right-wing organization," says Oakland County prosecutor Richard Thompson. "He's basically thumbed his nose at law enforcement...
...higher moral authority and ignoring court orders and judges' instructions, Kevorkian begins to embody all the warnings about how euthanasia, once unleashed, could get out of hand. "It's almost become obligatory for people who write or speak about the subject to distance themselves from Kevorkian," says Professor Yale Kamisar at the University of Michigan law school, who has followed the doctor's career for years. "They say, 'I'm not in favor of what Kevorkian is doing...
...wanted to be out of the spotlight for a while, Thomas' first-term rulings were pugnacious, blunt and, for a new Justice, relatively numerous. He wrote nine opinions for the majority, four concurrences and eight dissents. "Thomas hit the ground running," says University of Michigan law professor Yale Kamisar. "He's in there mixing...
...sort of Ferdinand the Bull strategy for future nominees: it taught them to win by refusing to engage. "There isn't much that the Senate can do about rejecting a nominee or thwarting the President. All a nominee has to say is, 'I have an open mind,' " says Yale Kamisar of the University of Michigan Law School. With that strategy, the White House easily slipped through the innocuous but no less conservative Anthony Kennedy and the enigmatic David Souter. Says Kamisar: "The lesson is that the Bork hearings were an aberration...