Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...County, was deeply concerned by the Supreme Court's Miranda decision (TIME, June 24). Like many another law-enforcement officer, Younger feared that because of the high court's holding that every suspect must be reminded "prior to questioning" of his right to silence and to legal counsel, there would be a virtual end to all voluntary confessions and a sharp and disheartening decline in successful prosecutions...
Patton's ironic encounter with justice began in 1960 when he was arrested for armed robbery. Lacking bond, he stayed in jail until his trial at which, without counsel, he was found guilty and sentenced to 20 years in the state penitentiary. Three years later, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Gideon v. Wainwright that every defendant, even if indigent, is entitled to counsel, Patton was one of the many prisoners in U.S. jails to apply for a post-conviction hearing...
...tackle and five-year pro for the Chicago Cardinals, who became one of the first Negroes elected a judge in Chicago, in 1960 presided over the murder trial of Danny Escobedo, ruling against a motion that the accused's confession be set aside because he had been denied counsel, a decision that led to the now historic U.S. Supreme Court reversal; of cancer; in Chicago...
...With these words, courtly Orison Swett Marden, 60, newly elected president of the American Bar Association, summed up a dominant theme of the A.B.A.'s annual meeting held last week in Montreal. Such Supreme Court decisions as Gideon, Escobedo and Miranda have sharply expanded the U.S. right to counsel, requiring the services of many more lawyers and a deep change in the attitude of many A.B.A. members...
...their comments on the cases tried before them, the 550 judges involved in the study very often believed they were able to spot what moved the jury, without necessarily yielding to it themselves. In a case where an obviously guilty defendant, tried without counsel, was acquitted, the judge reported that a juror told him: "Until the state provides a public defender, I will let everyone go free." Statistically, the judges thought that only 2% of the cases tried were "very difficult" for juries to handle; only 9% of the verdicts seemed to them "without merit." The most lenient juries...