Word: clerke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lowndes County courthouse - least of all the paunchy, gum-chewing defendant - allowed that to interfere with the civilities. There, grinning across the court room, was Coleman's nephew, Robert Coleman Black, one of his defense attorneys. A defense witness was a first cousin. Mrs. Kelley Coleman, the court clerk, was a cousin by marriage. The defendant's own name even appeared on the list of potential jurors, causing quiet merriment when it was read aloud in court...
...pattern also suggests "a sinister connection between magistrates and gambling operations." In 1963 Magistrate Ruth Marmon reportedly gave a petty-gambling defendant a choice of "$1,000 bail, or get $100 and it will all be dropped." A state legislator representing the defendant duly paid the magistrate's clerk $100. As a result, Mrs. Marmon and her clerk were indicted this summer...
Russell Hastings Peck '43, secretary of the Law School, yesterday was appointed clerk of the United States District Court for Massachusetts. He will assume his new position in January...
Scarcely had the chaplain said amen to the opening prayer when Missouri Republican Durward Hall demanded the entire journal of the preceding session be read. The clerk had barely begun to drone when Minority Whip Leslie Arends of Illinois leaped up and demanded a quorum count, which includes a full roll call of the House. McCormack had to comply. The count ate up half an hour. It was hardly finished when Iowa Republican H. R. Gross asked for another. And so it went all afternoon and into the night. Majority Leader Carl Albert accused the opposition of filibustering. Tempers frazzled...
...seems like the sort who can take care of herself. A onetime suburban Boston schoolteacher, she served as law clerk for ten years to her father District Judge William J. Day, and got her own law degree from Boston University in 1955. She now runs a law practice with her brother-when she is not running the schools and her household...