Legal Opinion
United States v. Computer Sciences Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided June 16, 1982No. Nos. 81-5053, 81-5099PublishedCited by 181 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judge:
Resourceful lawyers representing criminal defendants often desire to be thorough and to overlook nothing in their commendable zeal to afford first-class representation. Consequently in many cases they tend to excess as they inundate us with a plethora of arguments, some good and some not so good. Sometimes one wonders whether such lack of selectivity is not counterproductive, for a party raising a point of little merit exposes himself to the risk of excessive discount for a better point because of the company it keeps.
The present case raises numerous issues, but, in…
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