Word: client
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...understand what rape means?" asked Sir Patrick Hastings of his client as the London trial got under...
...MacCracken's lawyer, Frank J. Hogan, had been fruitlessly trying for a week to get his client out of the jurisdiction of the Senate and into the jurisdiction of some court. He now asked for four days in which to enter another habeas corpus plea. Prisoner Brittin's counsel made a similar request. Both were granted and both prisoners, accompanied by the Senate's Sergeant-at-Arms Chesley W. Jurney, clumped off to a second-floor room of the Willard...
...there. The fact was that Mr. MacCracken's lawyer, smart, dapper Frank J. Hogan, whose defense of Albert Fall and Edward L. Doheny made him the Senate's No. 1 antagonist, was playing a game with the Senate. Mr. Hogan wanted Mr. Jurney to arrest his client in a court where a writ of habeas corpus could at once be obtained for Mr. MacCracken's release. Thus for two days the majesty of the Senate and the craft of Mr. Hogan were deadlocked. Then the Senate adjourned for the weekend and Mr. Hogan moved...
...Sergeant Jurney's home; 2) The habeas corpus writ should be dismissed; 3) Mr. MacCracken had secured the writ under false pretenses and therefore was guilty of contempt of court and should be fined $100. Further indication that Lawyer Hogan had outsmarted not the Senate, but his own client came when Lawyer Garnett announced he was pondering charging MacCracken with perjury for falsely swearing that he had been arrested...
...Clarence [George V's late elder brother]." explained Defense Lawyer Lloyd Jones. "Indeed I believe she was imprisoned in India during the visit of King George, then Prince of Wales, in 1906, quite possibly because she expressed her views regarding the Duke of Clarence. ... I have advised my client to plead guilty...