Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...credit later repudiated) conflicted sharply with his strong support of civil liberties. Often he performed his role of Administration hatchet man with an excess of energy--particularly in his treatment of the executives responsible for the steel price rise and in his relentless, seemingly ruthless, drive to convict James Hoffa. But the assassination coupled with a period of introspection have left him more subdued...
...REPORTS (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.).* The story of Clarence Gideon, the Florida convict whose appeal to the Supreme Court resulted in new trials for himself and hundreds of other petty criminals, based on New York Times Reporter Anthony Lewis' excellent book, Gideon's Trumpet...
...guilt and a plea for mercy. After he has been formally charged, a defendant may hire a lawyer, and many do, though the courts generally look down on defense counsel. Nor is a defendant's morale helped by the fact that his head is shaved like a convict's as soon as he is jailed for investigation...
...Court & the Law. From the start, the legal community greeted the book with respect for its deft erudition. Reviewers spotted it as a fascinating account of the case of Clarence Earl Gideon, the obscure Florida convict whose now famous penciled petition to the Supreme Court eventually brought the precedent-shattering decision ruling that any man who cannot pay a lawyer is entitled to court-appointed counsel when on trial, even in state courts, for anything more than a petty offense. This decision brought Gideon a new trial (and his acquittal) and opened the way for new trials for a myriad...
...business with other Government agencies and turns a $4,000,000 annual profit over to the Treasury. Another Bennett innovation is saner sentencing. In the old days, all federal sentences were for fixed periods, and a parole board could not even consider a case until one-third of a convict's term had elapsed. Bennett inspired the 1958 Omnibus Sentencing Act, which allows far greater parole flexibility and permits a judge to jail a man for three to six months of observation before final sentencing, thus encouraging courts to tailor the rap to the man. As a result...