Word: cawley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bill's sponsors-Rep. Timothy W. Hickey (D-Camb.) and Sen. Robert L. Cawley (D-Bos.)-claimed their proposal would provide a satisfactory solution to the stadium problem. Noting that upkeep of the stadium is costly, they said. "This will relieve the University from this continuous financial expense...
...legislation, which was filed by Senator Leslie B. Cutler (R-Needham) and Rep. Robert L. Cawley (D-West Roxbury), the co-chairmen of the special commission, is designed to meet the test of last February's United States Supreme Court decision in Boxtrom v. Herald...
...that time the court ruled that a convicted person could not be incarcerated for a time longer than his sentence merely because a physician certifies him "violent and dangerous." Under the Cutler-Cawley bill a person in a mental institution whose sentence has expired would be entitled to a discharge hearing in court...
...Cutler-Cawley bill also provides for a Division of Mental Health within the attorney-general's office. This division would advise all of the state's mental patients of their legal rights and assist them in the preparation of petitions and writs. Since the attorney general is also the state's official prosecutor, some people believe that the mental health lawyers should be under the control of the Massachusetts Defenders Committee, the agency of Supreme Judicial Court charged with the defense of the indigent. This comparatively minor point should not be allowed to endanger the legislation. At present the Massachusetts...
...General Court would be wise to listen to the Bar Association on the bill but it shouldn't wait until summer, when many members are absent, tired, or otherwise disinterested, before considering this legislation. The Commonwealth, as Rep. Cawley noted when announcing the bill, has a deep obligation to see that civil rights of all of its citizens are protected...