"There has to be a better way," said Matthew Brown, an attorney with Common Good, a nonpartisan group seeking ways to overhaul governmental and legal systems to streamline the approval or rejection of major projects of all kinds.
Judges and attorneys in common-law courts regard the opportunity to cross-examine as a guarantee of the reliability and completeness of testimony by a witness.
So Darrow, attorney for the common man, seems to have taken part in a conspiracy to pay off a potential juror.
"Conversations that occurred between at least those four people — that led Jordan Copney to believe that he could rip off Justin Cosby for money and drugs," said the Middlesex County district attorney, Gerard T. Leone Jr. "The common denominator between those four people is drugs".
Such absolute primacy is necessary in order to ensure that the profit-making motivation is always subordinated to the Attorney General's "common law duty to represent the public interest". Newport Realty, Inc., 878 at2d at 1032 (internal quotation marks omitted).
A health care power of attorney is more common than a will or living trust, with roughly 53% of U.S. adults having granted someone this legal authorization.
"We think this is the type of stuff people should be able to look up," said Nicholas Heidorn, an attorney for California Common Cause, a good-government group.
I've noted before that, even if you balk at the concept that plaintiffs' attorneys can become "the common people's attorneys general," you still have to admit that some of the research and advocacy that goes into lawsuits can help advance public safety.
For Latino boys and young men in Los Angeles, vague and unsubstantiated claims of gang affiliations are common, attorneys said.
In France, as in most civil-law countries, the examination of witnesses is conducted by the magistrate rather than the attorney as in common-law countries.
