Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Taken aback, Judge Sullivan postponed sentencing the defendants, ordered a thoroughgoing psychiatric examination for Oscar Hartzell. "Your Honor," pleaded exhausted Defense Counsel Edward J. Hess, "if Hartzell is nutty, so are all the rest of them...
...first State Supreme Court decision in U. S. history on a novel principle of libel law was studied last week by editors of the Scripps League of Newspapers in a report prepared by the League's general counsel, Samuel Simpson Hahn of Los Angeles...
...truth but privilege was the News-Telegram's defense. Its counsel argued that a citizen attacked in one newspaper should be legally privileged to retort through another newspaper with a defense which might include a counterattack on the attacker. That seemed fair enough to the jury but the trial judge, who said he had never heard of such a defense, set the verdict aside. The News-Telegram carried an appeal to the Oregon Supreme Court, last month got a unanimous verdict in its favor...
...first time last week when a Tokyo court martial took up the famed case of Samurai Son Aizawa (TIME, Aug. 26). His defense was that General Nagata had been a friend of Japanese Government "bureaucrats," politicians, businessmen and other chicken-hearted civilians despised by the Fighting Services. Counsel for the defense loudly objected to the Prosecution's failure to state in the murder charge "the difference between public and private acts, the intrinsic nature of the Imperial Army, and the fact that the Supreme Army Command had been disturbed by Senior Statesmen and plutocrats...
...this Counsel Leibowitz taunted: "Does the sheriff claim that three Negroes shackled together in the rear seat of a rapidly moving automobile . . . with two men in that automobile armed to the teeth, this car preceded in front by an automobile carrying two other armed officers of the law and followed by still another car with armed guards and with state highway patrolmen as an escort, did attempt to escape by using a pen-knife...