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Edward J. Barshak, attorney for the demonstrators, argued that they had been on the property legally protesting discrimination. He based his defense on the statutary definition of trespassing as being on private property "without right." Last month, the Massachusetts Commission against Discrimination ordered the real estate company to stop discriminatory practices...
Judge Troy rejected Barshak's argument, however, ruling that the question of discrimination was irrelevant to the merits of the case...
...rights order the Civil Rights Act of 1960. But once the case is relevant to an investigation of police practices now being conducted by several civil rights organizations in the Boston area, it is likely that the matter will be pursued. CORE supplied Washington with his lawyer Edward J. Barshak, and the NAACP and the American Jewish Congress helped raise funds to pay legal costs...
...hearing, Lawrence F. O'Donnell, the accused officers' lawyer, termed Washington's charges "cheap, counterfeit propaganda" designed to "enhance his position as a performer." Barshak yesterday called O'Donnell's statement "the silliest thing I've ever heard. The most publicized aspect of the case was the dispute between the Police Commissioner and myself, and that had nothing to do with Jackie...
...Barshak added that he thinks improvements in the procedures under which Police Review Board hearings are conducted will result from the Jackie Washington case. "The Commissioner indicated that my arguments had a good deal of merit, and I know he wants to do the right thing," the attorney said...