Word: counsel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...possible." Said Fortas: "The great problem is where to draw the line. I could never subscribe to the theory that because a man is poor the scales of justice should be weighed in his favor. But because a man is poor he should not be denied the right to counsel...
...controversial criminal-law rules only recently imposed on state courts by the U.S. Supreme Court. Civilian courts have not yet adopted some rules that have become military practice. The Supreme Court, for example, has yet to say that state police failure to advise a suspect of his rights to counsel and silence invalidates his confession-a requirement that Congress imposed on the military 15 years ago. A military defendant is also entitled to full pretrial "discovery" of all evidence against him-a virtually unheard-of rule in state courts...
...SPECIAL COURTS-MARTIAL nearly always deal with enlisted men, have a president (senior officer present), a trial counsel (prosecutor) and defense counsel. Neither counsel need be a lawyer, but if the former is, the latter must be. Maximum penalties upon conviction: six months' confinement at hard labor and a bad-conduct discharge, which is theoretically less serious than a dishonorable discharge...
...former pupil, Clark, who had just completed a study on the subject for the Mid-Century White House Conference on Youth and Education. "When they came to me I walked over to the file cabinet and pulled out the study and handed it to Robert Carter, then general counsel of the NAACP," Clark recalls. "He looked it over and said it couldn't have been better had it been prepared to order...
Speaking were Howard formerly of the civil rights of the Justice Department; Meltsner, counsel for the Legal Defense Fund; and Zinn, professor of government at Boston University...