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CHICAGO (AP) — Defendants spoke directly to jurors in a series of recent high-profile...
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CHICAGO (AP) — Defendants spoke directly to jurors in a series of recent high-profile...
Defendants spoke directly to jurors in a series of recent high-profile trials, defying conventional wisdom that the risks of a client taking the stand usually outweigh the benefits
To Try a President Harry Kalven Jr. © Ernst Haas / Getty Organizing my files recently, I came upon an unpublished article by my father, Harry Kalven Jr. It was the last piece he wrote before his death in 1974. I had forgotten that it existed. Reading it now, 47 years after he wrote it, is an uncanny experience, for it speaks with singular clarity and force to a central question of the moment: How should the legal system respond to crimes that a former president may have committed while in office? A law professor at the University of Chicago, my father was an expert in severa...