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- From: rj24@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Robert Johnston)
- Subject: Re: The pro-choice thought police in action
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.183301.19404@news.columbia.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 18:33:01 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan24.164519.12254@ncsu.edu> dsh@eceyv.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
- >In article <CORWIN+.93Jan23214534@MORPHEUS.CIMDS.RI.CMU.EDU>
- >corwin+@CMU.EDU (Scott Safier) writes:
- >>dsh@eceyv.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
- >
- >>>"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."
- >
- >> 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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- Making false accusations of criminal activity is known as slander, doug.
- I would say that there is a definite interest in preventing officers of
- the court from engaging in such illegal activities.
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- Robert Johnston
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