Word: counsel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There can be no equal justice," said the court, "where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has." Since then, the court has handed down several related rulings, notably the Gideon decision affirming the right to court-appointed counsel in all criminal cases if a defendant cannot afford to hire a lawyer (TIME...
...Putnam's Sons, which published Fanny Hill in June, 1963, was reported yesterday to have retained counsel in Boston to defend the book. Putnam's has said that it will seek experts to defend Fanny Hill's "literary and historic merit...
...producers cut miles of film showing procedural debates, and much that was relevant and exciting as well. What they saved were the fantastic scenes of a battle between the super-patriotism of a twisted, treacherous, almost convincing senator and the puritan New England decency of Joseph Welch, special counsel for the Army...
...Welch were only the leaders of the battle: some of the most vivid scenes center around their allies, cohorts, and lieutenants. Ever present beside McCarthy, sitting close at his elbow and whispering constantly in his ear, is one of the strangest participants, Roy M. Cohn. In one scene Counsel Welch is cross-examining one of McCarthy's assistants about where a "doctored" photograph which McCarthy introduced as evidence came from. Welch inquires sarcastically if a "pixie" brought it in, and Cohn leans over to whisper something in McCarthy...
McCarthy: Would Counsel, for my benefit, define, I think he might be an expert on this, the word "pixie?" Welch: "I should say, I should say, Mr. Senator, that a pixie is a close relative of a fairy, shall I proceed sir? Have I enlightened...