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Linda A. Fairstein, who became the nation's best-known prosecutor of sex crimes in a 30-year career of major cases, legislative reforms and best-selling books that explored the legal and emotional realities of rape, will retire next year as chief of the Manhattan district attorney's sex crimes unit.

That's what the Better Base Case legislative package sets out to do.

After other attempts have failed, this one aims to improve our transatlantic relations on a case-by-case legislative basis.

In some cases, legislators have worked to help clients gain favorable outcomes from elected bodies in their legislative districts.

A series of referendums, court cases and legislative changes have chipped away at that law.

But Paula Wolff, a senior executive at Chicago Metropolis 2020 and a leading champion of criminal justice reform, said judges might not feel they could exercise discretion in nonviolent drug cases without legislative support and financing from Springfield.

" 'We don't have enough money for gender equity' has been tried as a defense and has lost," she said, noting that previous court cases and legislative proposals to exempt football from Title IX have failed.

But sometimes a truth-seeking society needs to be able to compel a person to speak outside his trial -- in grand jury rooms, civil cases and legislative hearings, for example.

These pressures have derived in some cases from legislative requirements and in other cases from commercial requirements.

Although not a lawyer or government insider, Morgan Stanley's Adelman has steeped himself in the court cases and legislative actions nationwide, and he sees threats to tobacco ebbing.

After all, a majority of voters in these states generally support same-sex marriage -- and in some cases, a legislative solution is imminent.