It is a well-worn cliche that a man who represents himself in court has a fool for a lawyer.
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When Megan Meier logged on to MySpace a little over a year ago, she was seeking a new start with new friends.
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This week, the Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to vote in favor of Michael Mukasey to be the new
U.S. attorney general, sending his nomination to the full Senate for confirmation.
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In his closing argument last week in the murder trial of pop music legend Phil Spector, prosecutor Alan Jackson encouraged jurors to ignore the experts who testified for the defense because, he said, “if you hire enough lawyers who hire enough experts who are paid enough money, you can get them to say anything.”
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LAST WEEK, a quarter of a century after its demise, the Equal Rights
Amendment suddenly reappeared on Capitol Hill.
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THE DISCLOSURE this week of a secret databank operation tracking
international financial transactions has caused renewed concerns
about civil liberties in the United States.
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TODAY,
THE U.S. Supreme Court will assemble to hear one of the most
important cases of the term: Hamdan vs.
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IT WAS A
CRIME that still haunts the nation.
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