The family's news conference came as the Tulsa police promised a thorough investigation and as a lawyer for Officer Shelby, Scott Wood, defended her actions.
India needs more judges, more and better educated lawyers and a thorough repair of what academics Devesh Kapur and Milan Vaishnav call the "dilapidated and clogged" plumbing of its courts.
Federal lawyers are conducting "a thorough evaluation" of whether this complies with the disabilities act, which prohibits local governments, or private groups that provide public transportation services, from discriminating against the disabled, according to the letter sent to medallion owners.
"We found no evidence that his lawyers ever conducted a thorough life history investigation, a basic staple of effective representation in a death penalty case," they wrote.
Then in recent weeks, after the assassination of a prominent human rights lawyer, the calls for a thorough investigation into the past seemed deafening.
President Dmitry Medvedev, a former lawyer, has made grand statements promising a thorough investigation into Magnitsky's death – a unique case.
Before the Central Park Avenue accident in 1998, the town did not have a thorough tree inspection program, said Cyrus M. Diamond, the lawyer representing Selamawit Hilliard, the Yonkers survivor.
But even if lawyers and judges could routinely absorb a thorough grounding in the scientific issues they confront, there would still be trouble.
* "Year Round Savings," by Julian Block, a tax lawyer, is a concise 45 pages but a thorough explanation of the tax laws.
"The governor is pleased that Judge Kaye, after a thorough and independent investigation, has exonerated him" of any criminal wrongdoing, the lawyer, Theodore V. Wells Jr., said in a statement.
