Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...statement. When the din had subsided, Kostov's lawyer apologized for "defending" him, and called for the maximum penalty. A lawyer, he said, should not try to help a guilty client: "In a Socialist state there is no division of duty between the judge, prosecutor and defense counsel." Next day the court found Kostov guilty of treason and sentenced him to the gallows; his ten codefendants, all of whom had pliantly "confessed" and testified against Kostov, got off with life terms or less...
Wallach admitted that there was still a question whether this witness "who is undergoing grave struggles of conscience" will definitely come forward, but added, "He may be persuaded to play the part of the complainant himself, with my position changed to that of a corroborating witness and counsel on the complaint...
...last week, as Julian Wadleigh, former State Department employee, took the stand, an air of excitement and tension finally came to the courtroom. It was a big moment for Claude Cross, the shrewd, quiet Boston lawyer who had succeeded posturing, lionlike Lloyd Paul Stryker as defense counsel for Hiss. Cross had contended in his opening statement that Wadleigh, and not Alger Hiss, had stolen the famed Pumpkin Papers...
...School Forum Scheduled for to right at Langdell Court has been cancelled because of the illness of W. Burton Leach '21, professor of Law. Leach, a Brigadier-General in the U.S., Army Reserve and special counsel to the air force on the B-36 investigations, was to have spoken on "The Armed Services investigation...
Taking the sun in Key West, Fla., Clark Clifford, the President's closest adviser, last week told why he was quitting the Government. The lyrics were familiar, but some of the accompaniment was new. Though Congress had recently raised his salary as presidential counsel from $12,000 to $20,000 a year, Clifford insisted that he just couldn't live on his salary and raise a family (three daughters...