Word: counsel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Black power is a ringing slogan in the summer of 1966-one that may well see all the counsel of well-meant moderation choked in Mississippi dust...
...Dodd's staff, David Martin and Gerard Zeiller, later surmised that Klein had paid Dodd at least $10,000 for his troubles. Mrs. Carpenter acknowledged that the conversation she had overheard was merely speculation, and Stennis dismissed the testimony as valueless. But Dodd was enraged that Committee Counsel Benjamin Fern had knowingly permitted the statement to come out, announced dramatically that he would request the Justice Department to institute perjury proceedings against Mrs. Carpenter. Subsequently, Martin and Zeiller swore that Mrs. Carpenter's testimony was "false...
...economic assistance a year ago, and eventually the pinch began to hurt. In the best tradition of middle-of-theroadmanship, Ayub began to veer back toward the West, beginning with a visit to Washington last December. Bhutto did not approve, and more and more Ayub turned elsewhere for counsel. In announcing Bhutto's departure, Ayub, who will take over the Foreign Ministry portfolio himself, insisted that it would lead to no change in Pakistan's foreign policy which, he said, is "based on national interest." But the definition of national interest can change: the inflexible Bhutto...
...famous case of Gideon v. Wainwright, where an indigent did not have the advice of a lawyer at his trial, the court concluded that retroactivity was called for because denial of the right to counsel affected "the very integrity of the fact-finding process." Absence of a lawyer meant a "clear danger of convicting the innocent." The same went for a case where a jury may have relied on an involuntary confession to convict (Jackson v. Denno). "Confessions," said Warren, "are likely to be highly persuasive with a jury, and if coerced, they may well be untrustworthy by their very...
Justice White seemed equally exercised. The majority, he said, was making "new law and new public policy" as it created a right to counsel to protect the Fifth Amendment privilege against selfincrimination. The results, said White, may be horrendous, and he had "no desire whatsoever to share the responsibility" for the impact on the criminal process. "In some unknown number of cases the court's rule will return a killer, a rapist or other criminal to the streets to repeat his crime whenever it pleases him." Seeing the police as now practically powerless, White worried about citizens...