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Defense lawyers for Lee Malvo, the 17-year-old charged in the sniper shootings in the Washington area, said today that they would seek to have statements made by their client thrown out for several reasons, including a contention that law enforcement officials had tried to confuse him about his rights.
A22 Lawyers Pose Rights Question Defense lawyers for Lee Malvo, the teenager charged in the Washington-area sniper shootings, said they would seek to have statements made by their client thrown out for several reasons, including a contention that law enforcement officials tried to confuse him about his rights.
Former Congressman Edward M. Mezvinsky, facing charges that he bilked friends and associates out of more than $10 million, may not use a defense of mental illness, including a contention that he suffers brain damage because of an antimalarial drug and bipolar disorder, a federal district judge ruled.
The commission's suit includes a contention that the firm retaliated against Ms. Schieffelin in a variety of ways, culminating in her dismissal on the ground of insubordination.
There was speculation today that her defense of the use of modafinil might also include a contention that the drug is not a stimulant and that it is not performance enhancing.
Those concerns include a contention that putting the center in Walt Whitman Park would create a "terror target cluster" because of its proximity to targets like the Brooklyn Bridge, subway stations and a federal courthouse that was the site of a bombing in the 1980's.
(In later years, several retrospective accounts of the controversy reiterated a contention that McCain was included in the investigation primarily so that there would be at least one Republican target. ) On his Keating Five experience, McCain said: "The appearance of it was wrong.
Mr. Breivik maintains that the militant network really exists, a contention that prosecutors say is absurd.
The court ruled against several arguments made by the teenager, Christopher Pittman, including the contention that he was denied a speedy trial before he was sentenced to 30 years in prison in February 2005.
The unusual background, including prosecutors' contention that Ms. Diallo repeatedly lied about her past, should not be a deterrent to other women, she said.
