Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there an interpreter in the house? Up stepped Danny Escobedo, 29 (TIME Cover, April 29), who has been kindly disposed toward the law ever since 1964's Supreme Court decision in Escobedo v. Illinois, voiding his murder confession on grounds that he was denied his rights to counsel. Since his parents are Mexican, Escobedo was sworn in as an interpreter and translated the Puerto Ricans' side of the case. A few minutes later, Danny was before the court himself, and the judge dismissed a disorderly-conduct charge stemming from a street brawl last March. That still left Danny...
...nine counts of larceny, tax evasion and conspiracy to defraud the Government. The onetime boy wonder and Lyndon Johnson protege, now a pudgy 38, is estimated to have amassed $2,000,000 in assets, though his annual Senate salary was $19,612. In his opening statement, Justice Department Counsel William O. Bittman charged that Baker had persuaded California savings-and-loan-company officials to give him $100,000 as contributions for congressional candidates in the 1962 campaign, then pocketed $80,000 for himself. Called by the prosecution, Kenneth Childs, president of the Home Savings and Loan Association of Los Angeles...
...prospective juror, when asked if he had read or seen anything related to the trial, said, "Well, I've read some articles about the defendant's counsel...
...wouldn't blame the defendant for his counsel?" Moynihan asked the prospective juror, drawing more laughs out of the crowd...
Raymond Moley's star faded more than a generation ago, after briefly generating power and light for the U.S. President he served. He and Franklin Roosevelt made a curious, and before long incompatible, pair: the brilliant Columbia University professor on whose counsel F.D.R. placed the highest value at first, and the headstrong political pragmatist who eventually came to count few men's counsel above his own. For Moley, disillusion set in soon. He left Washington in September 1933, after only six months as presidential assistant, emissary and speech collaborator. In this book, he builds a private monument over...