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- From: dsh@eceyv.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger)
- Subject: Re: The pro-choice thought police in action
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.164519.12254@ncsu.edu>
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- References: <1993Jan23.182126.8180@ncsu.edu> <1993Jan23.182821.8437@ncsu.edu> <CORWIN+.93Jan23214534@MORPHEUS.CIMDS.RI.CMU.EDU>
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 16:45:19 GMT
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- In article <CORWIN+.93Jan23214534@MORPHEUS.CIMDS.RI.CMU.EDU>
- corwin+@CMU.EDU (Scott Safier) writes:
- >dsh@eceyv.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
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- >>"Lawyers have no First Amendment right to use whatever
- >> language they want in a courtroom, the U.S. Court of
- >> Appeals for the Ninth Circuit made clear July 1. Thus,
- >> a lawyer who was representing abortion protesters at
- >> a criminal trial, and who contravened a court order
- >> not to use words such as ``murderers'' and ``killers''
- >> that went to defenses the trial court had excluded,
- >> was properly held in contempt on 20 occasions.
- >> Zal v. Steppe, CA 9, No. 91-55579, 7/1/92."
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- > A lawyer is an Officer of the Court. As an Officer of the Court, they
- > are bound by the rules of judicial conduct, which includes obeying a
- > judge's order. If a lawyer disagrees with a ruling, they have the option
- > of appeal. To ignore a ruling and usurp the system is contempt.
-
- You're missing the point. The judge on the case *ordered* the
- lawyer not to use words such as ``murderers'' and ``killers''.
- Do you think the judge's order was appropriate?
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