Guiteau's autopsy report indicated that he had phimosis.

After some time trying to do remedial work in Latin and algebra at Ann Arbor High School, during which time he received numerous letters from his father haranguing him to do so, he quit and joined the utopian religious sect known as the Oneida Community, in Oneida, New York, with which Guiteau's father already had close affiliations.

Guiteau's father, embarrassed, wrote letters in support of Noyes, who had considered Guiteau irresponsible and insane.

At the time, this led to the simplistic speculation that Guiteau's murderous behavior was due to phimosis-induced insanity.

Guiteau's interest turned to politics.

However, many have argued that the usefulness of these laws is vastly inadequate in terms of controlling government actions, largely because of institutional and systemic obstacles like a weak judiciary, poorly trained judges and lawyers, and corruption.

Natural law is sometimes identified with the maxim that " an unjust law is no law at all ", but as John Finnis, the most important of modern natural lawyers has argued, this maxim is a poor guide to the classical Thomist position.

Opponents, usually lawyers and leftist political parties, argued that plea bargaining would greatly infringe on the rights of defense, the long-standing constitutional right of presumption of innocence, the rights of suspects in police custody, and the right to a fair trial.

Second, the lawyers argued that the statute violated Scopes's constitutional right to free speech because it prohibited him from teaching evolution.

Fourth, the defense lawyers argued that the statute violated the provisions of the Tennessee Constitution that prohibited the establishment of a state religion.

Beginning in the 1870s, corporate lawyers argued, following the reasoning of the Dartmouth College case, that corporations could exercise the rights of their shareholders, and that they were entitled to some of the legal protections against arbitrary state action accorded also to natural persons.

Prince's lawyers argued the MCD claim was " greatly inflated ".

The Justice Ministry, still staffed by lawyers concerned to uphold the letter of the law, argued correctly that since Grynszpan was not a German citizen, he could not be tried in Germany for a murder he had committed outside Germany, and since he had been a minor at the time he could not face the death penalty.

Though lawyers argued that the House could intervene only after the lower courts had failed to remedy the case, the Lords decided in Skinner's favour in 1668.

Papon's lawyers argued that he was a mid-level official, not the person making decisions about whom to deport.

His lawyers argued that he did the most good he could, given the circumstances, and ensured that those to be deported were treated well while in his custody.

His lawyers appealed to the European Court of Human Rights, where they argued that the French court's denial of his appeal on a technicality ( rather than on the merits of the case ) constituted a violation of Papon's right to appeal his conviction.

Scott's lawyers argued the same for Scott's wife, and further claimed that Eliza Scott's birth on a steamboat between a free state and a free territory had made her free upon birth.

Trevor-Roper argued that, whilst office-holders and lawyers were prospering, the lesser gentry were in decline and that that was the Civil War's cause.

Coke's uncle Thomas Gawdy had served as the Steward to the Third Duke of Norfolk, and during the 1580s Coke was employed by the Howards to see off lawyers employed by the crown who argued that the Howards ' lands were forfeit due to the treason of the 4th Duke of Norfolk.

At his trial, lawyers for Williams argued that the Senator had not actually been bribed because the stock in the titanium mining company was worthless.

The venue was moved to Houston, Texas, after Saldívar's lawyers successfully argued that she could not receive a fair trial in Selena's home town.

In a bonus feature on the DVD version of The Times of Harvey Milk, a documentary on Milk's life and death, White's lawyers explain what they actually argued in court.

Ferguson's lawyers ( William Kunstler ) argued that he should not be held criminally liable, for actions which broke the law, because he was overcome with rage by his perceived society's racist discrimination against black people.

Black's lawyers recommended that he be sentenced to the 29 months he had already served while the prosecution argued for Black to complete his original 6½ year sentence.

His lawyers also argued that the boycott violated the Sherman Antitrust Act, and represented a threat to public safety.

His lawyers ' primary arguments before US District Magistrate Robert P. DeGiacomo stated that his alleged acts of lawbreaking in Liberia were political rather than criminal in nature and that the extradition treaty between the two republics had lapsed ; in response, Assistant United States Attorney Richard G. Stearns argued that Liberia wished to charge Taylor with theft in office, rather than with political crimes, and that any international political decisions that could hold up the trial should only be made by the US State Department.

In July 2008 in the High Court in London, P & G lawyers successfully argued against a United Kingdom VAT and Duties Tribunal decision that Pringles were not crisps ( even though it said " Potato Crisps " on the container ) as the potato content was only 42 % and their shape, P & G stated, " is not found in nature ".

While it is true that such acts were covered by Crimen Sollicitationis, canon lawyers have argued that the secrecy provisions of the document " would not have tied the hands of a bishop ... who wanted to report a crime by a priest to the police.

" Additionally, Claiborne was noted for being one of only a few American lawyers to have been admitted as an English barrister, and also for being one of even a smaller number of English barristers to have argued before the United States Supreme Court.

One of the A.L.A.M. lawyers observed that if the Selden case had been tried under this simplified procedure, the testimony which filled more than a score of volumes, `` at a minimum cost of $1 a page for publication alone, could have been contained in one volume ''.

Mrs. Meeker had spent a small fortune on a search for him but had made no provision for him in her will if he should be found after her death, and had never mentioned his name to her lawyers.

So did the firm of lawyers who had got her the divorce, Kimball and Stacy.

Negro lawyers dug into the records of 300 white students, found that many were hardly interviewed at all -- and few had academic records as good as Hamilton Holmes.

Kidd had two lawyers to assist in his defence.

However, members were divided over key issues, only 25 had previous parliamentary experience, and although many had some legal training, there were no qualified lawyers.

Biafra claims that their lawyers had told him only to correspond through lawyers and not directly with the band, as the conflict over payment had apparently arisen before the accounting mistake was discovered.

The first members of the party drew heavily from the ranks of family members and defense lawyers of political prisoners as well as intellectuals and artists who had spent time abroad.

Historically, lawyers in most European countries were addressed with the title of doctor, and countries outside of Europe have generally followed the practice of the European country which had policy influence through modernization or colonialization.

As such, lawyers practicing common law in England were not doctoral candidates and had not earned the doctorate level degree.

To assist him in legal matters he had an adviser, the legatus iuridicus, and those in Britain appear to have been distinguished lawyers perhaps because of the challenge of incorporating tribes into the imperial system and devising a workable method of taxing them.

Also the country had just three lawyers with not a single Libyan physician, engineer, surveyor or pharmacist in the kingdom.

But, unlike his father, he had only a desultory interest in his profession and did not relish either the practice of law or the company of lawyers.

They had no professional lawyers, but many of their farmer-warriors, like Njal, the truth-teller, were learned in folk custom and in its intricate judicial procedure.

Mr. al-Kidd's lawyers say the then-attorney general encouraged authorities after 9 / 11 to arrest potential suspects as material witnesses when they lacked probable cause to believe the suspects had committed a crime.

With the help of lawyers in August 1937 he was successful in claiming a pension ; he received a cash settlement for his house, which had been taken over by the city of Cologne ; his unpaid mortgage, penalties and taxes were waived.

In the early 20th century, the university had a student population as small as one thousand, consisting largely of upper-class pupils training to become civil servants, lawyers and doctors.

Seibert said they had originally planned to use Neil Armstrong's " One small step " quote, but lawyers said Armstrong owns his name and likeness, and Armstrong had refused, so the quote was replaced with a beeping sound.