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...about the role of defense lawyers at a time when this role is so vital. There is no valid difference of opinion on whether or not a lawyer should allow his client to commit perjury. The Canons of Ethics are not ambiguous here: Canon 15 commands that the lawyer "obey his own conscience and not that of his client." No duty owed the client by the lawyer or the adversary system requires a lawyer to lie or permit his client to lie in court. No lawyer worthy of the profession will do it. Freedman's view that the lawyer...
...freed offenders all over again. They also have to deal with a new crime wave every time an amnesty is even considered. To be sure, current offenders do not qualify for the amnesty, but they act as if they think they do. Evidently Italians who do not obey the law do not read it either...
...places in the world where one can see a full-scale live reproduction of the pageantry of a Renaissance court." The Christian concept of authority, McKenzie concludes, is not an impersonal rule of law, but an I-Thou rule of men over other men who freely choose to obey their governors and who have a right to share in decision making...
...contention that such a ruling will "impose an undue burden" on tavernkeepers, the judge was unimpressed. He could see nothing but a benefit to "the public interest" if Jersey tavernkeepers obey the law and exercise reasonable care about whom they serve. However, because the trial judge made errors in his instructions to the jury, the case was sent back for a new trial...
...Corporation to take no action until constitutional issues raised in the M.I.T. suit are settled. Harvard had nothing to lose by quietly honoring Bowles's request for a postponement until that suit is adjudicated. Sargent Kennedy, Secretary to the Corporation, has insisted that Harvard "had no choice but to obey the laws of the Commonwealth." Yet he has admitted that a college or university cannot be prosecuted if one of its teachers refuses to sign the oath; the University would not have been liable if it had held off until the fall, when the M.I.T. case will be heard...