Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Helms announced plans to make Elian a U.S. citizen when Congress reconvenes Jan. 24--a move that could stall repatriation procedures. Though conservatives regularly uphold the sanctity of the family against intrusions by the government, Helms and others have reversed course in this case. Explains Jose Garcia Pedrosa, a lawyer fighting to keep Elian in the U.S.: "Which kind of a family is a less important factor in how this boy should be raised than which kind of state...
...that as the parent, she should be the one to decide how her children are reared. Granville, whose new husband adopted the girls, says she always wanted the Troxels to be involved with her children, but she disagreed with the extent and timing of their visitation demands. Says her lawyer, Catherine Smith: "The grandparents were not denied access. She went to them and said, 'How about one week a month?' and they sued...
Smith, 75, is the second member of the seven-person Corporation to step down in two months. Lawyer Judith Richards Hope plans to vacate her position near the end of March...
...fatally shooting 18-year-old Ronnie Green in 1997, was sentenced to spend the next seven years in Michigan's juvenile detention system, against the prosecution's pleas for a harsher sentence. Impassively observing the proceedings, Abraham stared balefully into the distance as his fate was decided; his lawyer reports the boy asked him "What happened?" after court was adjourned. For his part, Judge Eugene Moore made an obvious effort to balance his scathing indictment of Michigan's approach to juvenile justice - which allows children to be tried as adults for serious crimes - and his demands for personal responsibility from...
...lawyer for Michael Campbell, the 18-year-old Florida man who forced a two-day closing of Columbine High last month via an e-mailed bomb threat, is using a novel defense: Internet addiction. Campbell pleaded not guilty on Wednesday, with his lawyer claiming the young man's actions occurred in a semi-delusional state, the result of being lost in cyberspace. But if history is any indication, the defense will prove little more than publicity stunt - Campbell's lawyer, Ellis Rubin, has previously waged unsuccessful modernity-based defenses, including television addiction and Prozac-induced nymphomania...