Word: counsel
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This hypothesis was originated by a commission assistant counsel, Aden Specter, now district attorney of Philadelphia, after Warren investigators became puzzled over the timing of Oswald's shots. After a frame-by-frame analysis of a movie, film taken by a tourist named Abraham Zapruder, commissioners decided that 1.8 seconds-at most-had elapsed between Kennedy's first visible response to being hit in the neck and John Connally's first measurable reaction to a bullet striking him. The early assumption had been that the two were hit by separate shots. But since Oswald's bolt...
Seems that in the bill is a teensy clause authorizing the Secretary of Transportation to "develop and construct a civil supersonic transport." Senator Warren G. Magnuson (D.-Wash.) who helped slip the seven words into the bill isn't sure what they mean; neither is the chief counsel to the Senate Commerce Committee who wrote...
...police station and plunked into a cell. Escobedo (TIME cover, April 29) well knew his rights: they were first limned in the Supreme Court decision that voided his murder admission in 1964 (Escobedo v. Illinois), and amplified last June when the court applied the rights of silence and counsel to all police interrogation (Miranda v. Arizona...
...rejecting retroactivity. Appellant Charlie Mae McQueen, 50, a domestic with an estimated IQ of 84, was arrested after a laborer was found stabbed to death in Hempstead, N.Y. Given a 20-year-to.-life sentence in 1964, Miss McQueen appealed on three grounds: >The police violated her right to counsel at the station house when they barred her daughter-her only "counsel." > The police coerced her confession by not telling her that her victim was dead -and falsely claiming that he would identify her. >The police failed to state her constitutional rights, thus voiding her confession under Miranda...
...clergyman can give counsel to the worst sinner, but when a lawyer gives counsel to someone who has had the condemnation of society, people say it's scocking," he adds. And he believes that the attorney should "exploit the law to the fullest benefit of his client" -- within the limits of integrity and the facts...