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Entertainment & Sports

Jan. 22, 2000

The Practice: Unrealistic Arguments Plauge Show

Jimmy Berluti on 'The Practice' suggests using the diminished-capacity/social-deviant theory utilized by the Reginald Denny-beating defendants.

By M.C. Sungaila
        In a repeat, ethics and the firm's "win at all costs" attitude collided when Bobby Donnell and Eugene Young defended Aaron Wilton, an upper-middle-class African-American accused of assault for hurling a white security guard through a window during a racially charged riot, killing him. Bobby and Eugene initially planned to argue that Wilton's assault was justifie...

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