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Article: Lawyer "stunts" on courtroom steps endanger justice, warns Shestack

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October 1, 1997
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"The stunt of lawyers holding court with the press on the courthouse steps rather than focusing their legal acumen in the sanctity of the courtroom is not just unseemly. It can have a dangerous impact on juries and witnesses, and it diminishes our legal system in public opinion."

ABA President Jerome J. Shestack made those remarks during a press conference at the Annual Meeting in San Francisco, then tempered his comments by recognizing the crucial role the news media have played in correcting injustice, particularly in death penalty cases. He still weighed firmly on the side of self-restraint during ongoing trials in encouraging lawyers not to try their cases in the press simply because ...

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