But if he sends a lawyer to do it, a lawyer can plead whatever privilege that lawyers can plead.
Does it pay to get lawyers involved?
HOW many lawyers does it take to change a light bulb?
"How many lawyers does it take to file a light bulb?" one clerk joked.
Helping Beautify Rikers Island So how many lawyers does it take to dig up shrubs in Rockefeller Center at 6 a.m.?
So, to paraphrase Nixon, when a lawyer does it, that means it's not illegal?
"The state has a large budget to spend on advertising this fact, and we want to make sure it does it," said Benjamin D. Geffen, a lawyer with the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia, which took part in the law's challenge.
"The truth never changes, does it?" asked Michael Chertoff, Lieutenant Smith's lawyer, in a series of rapid-fire questions in which he sought to discredit Officer Jackson.
When it did, it hired lawyers and psychologists who developed evidence about brain damage to Mr. Valdez that had not been presented to the jury.
"I was trying to illustrate that you don't just confront Iran with guns and soldiers; sometimes you do it with lawyers and accountants and diplomats," Mr. McCormack said.
