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to the Lexis InstructionsThe law firm of Cosby Sills Cash and Chung were in dire straights after a hard days night. Feloniuous T. Barrister lay sprawled in his Madonna armchair. The chair embraced him automatically when he sat down by wrapping its arm supports around his chest in a suggestive matter. Having been abandoned as a child, the chair comforted him.
You entered the room just as he was finishing a call from one of President Clinton's interns who was interviewing for a job with the firm.
"Seems we'll have a new intern next year", he said absent-mindedly as he waived you to a large red leather office chair adjacent to his Louis XV mahogany desk. After inspecting it for unusual devices, you sat down tenuously leaning forward in an attempt to feign interest.
"We have a new case. It seems we have a new case involving the cousin of one of our oldest and wealthiest clients. He has been convicted of manslaughter. He defended his family in his home which is a converted loft. It is still zoned as commercial. At trial, the defense counsel argued defense of premises. See if you can find a case on point which defines cases in which citizens are entitled to defend a building. or a residence. Get one case from New Jersey and one case from Connecticut, if you can.
Have a memo on my desk by next week.
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