Word: protected
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When Rubin appealed, a Florida appellate court backed up Judge Shapiro. The court acknowledged the "serious dilemma" posed by Rubin's responsibility to his client and his conflicting duty to protect the integrity of the judicial system. But it agreed with Shapiro's decision not to let Rubin walk away from the case. Its proposed solution: Rubin could allow the "defendant to take the stand and deliver his statement in narrative form," decline to "elicit the perjurious testimony by questioning," and refuse to "argue the false testimony during closing argument." Following these guidelines, the court assured Rubin, would fulfill...
...witness who he knows is going to lie," explains Law Professor Phillip Johnson of the University of California, Berkeley. When the lying witness is the attorney's own client, however, the rule runs smack into another fundamental ethical rule -- a lawyer's obligation to protect the confidentiality of his client's conversations. Legal scholars have tilted back and forth over the issue. The currently prevailing view, endorsed by the American Bar Association, argues that the attorney should be required to blow the whistle on the client if he cannot persuade him to tell the truth...
INSTANCES LIKE THESE are rare, but not as rare as some people would like to think. Ironically, my roommate had sought to follow the advice of crime prevention officers by taking steps to protect herself. But because of one major flaw in the otherwise beneficial escort service, she was verbally assaulted and ran a risk of being sexually assaulted...
...streetwalker past, resents George's cheapness, the garish clothes he buys to please her, the Bloody Marys that he drinks waiting for her in fancy hotels. Hoskins, an incredibly natural blend of realistic and romantic, who cannot help but see her for what she is, nevertheless tries to protect her and himself from recognizing this reality...
Often, George resembles nothing so much as a big devoted dog. He follows Simone trustingly, dressing in clothes she buys for him, waiting for her patiently. And, every once in a while, he bares his savage teeth, ready to fight to the death to protect his master. As they cruise through the red-light district looking for Cathy, suddenly a man attacks the car. George mechanically grabs the man's head and beats it bloody against the windowframe...