Word: counsel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Edward J. Barshak, Washington's attorney, told the CRIMSON yesterday that the decision not to appear was made after McNamara refused a request to apply the rules of evidence at the hearing and to permit Washington to be represented by counsel...
Washington Refused Counsel...
...York Lawyer James Donovan, counsel for the Cuban Families Committee, was annoyed by the notion that Bobby Kennedy and the Justice Department were really responsible for arranging the ransom payments to Castro. "I have enormous respect for the Attorney General." said Donovan, "but it is absolutely and unqualifiedly so that the policy and negotiations were entrusted...
...partly because of that Kennedy called Bobby. As chief counsel for a Senate committee investigating corruption in Lake County in 1959, Bobby Kennedy scraped up enough dirt to inspire the formation of the privately financed Northwest Indiana Crime Commission. The investigations of Commission Director Francis Lynch unearthed evidence that Chacharis and his cronies had regularly accepted payoffs from construction companies that wanted city contracts and licenses. When he could not interest the county prosecutor in his evidence, Lynch went to see Bobby Kennedy, who set up a federal grand jury...
Since the case involves questions of individual rights, race (Washington is a Negro), and police brutality, many civic organizations have taken an interest in it. The Congress o. Racial Equality (CORE) has provided Washington with free counsel...