Word: counsel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...graduate of the Howard University Law School, Marshall captained the long-drawn legal battle for equal rights during his 23 years as counsel for the N.A.A.C.P. and its Legal Defense and Educational Fund. He argued 32 cases before the Supreme Court, winning all but three. His most famous victory was the court's 1954 ruling that segregated schools are in violation of the 14th Amendment. Named a federal circuit judge by John Kennedy, Marshall became the nation's first Negro Solicitor General two years...
...federal judiciary's great era of major civil rights decisions may be near its end. The fundamental lines of equality have already been drawn, and Marshall will likely be writing opinions on civil rights cases whose guidelines he saw established when he was arguing before the courts as counsel for the N.A.A.C.P...
...years ago was accused of telephoning a neighboring housewife and making what the court called "remarks or questions of the irritatingly offensive, adolescent, sex variety." The woman who claimed to have been called never appeared at any hearing. Neither Gerald nor his parents were advised of any right to counsel or of his right to keep silent. They had little or no advance notice of the charges against him. No transcript was kept of the proceedings, and no appeal was possible. It took a writ of habeas corpus to get any sort of review. The offense was punishable...
...process.' " Accordingly, the court ruled that an accused juvenile is entitled to timely notice of the charges. He must be given the right to confront and cross-examine witnesses against him. For his hearing to be fair, he must also be told of his right to counsel-a court-appointed counsel if he is indigent-and he must be told of his right to remain silent...
...Lardner's own constructive suggestions are notable by their absence, other than to wax vitriolic about the "consummate self-indulgence" of running a candidate for President in 1968. Does he counsel that the left join the Ripon Society in an effort to encourage Charles Percy's nomination? Or do we simply pray, maybe to Luci J. Nugent's "little monks," that an acceptable Republican is nominated? Or, if an unacceptable nominee emerges, and if Johnson has not changed his War policy, do we all get drunk on election day? The most iniquitous form of self-indulgence is a refusal...