Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even have a public-defender system." Yet if no lawyer is available for a suspect who wants one, the police cannot ask him a thing. Equally baffling is how to prove that a suspect who does talk, "knowingly," waived his rights to silence and to counsel. Unless the police take movies or make tape recordings, they and defendants may be right back where they started: the traditional "swearing contest" in which a court must weigh the policeman's word against that of the defendant. And what of "poisonous fruits," meaning an illegal confession's leads to other telltale...
...onetime Louisville attorney, Street was Brown-Forman's general counsel for nine years before he became a vice president in 1947. Since then, he has been one of the Brown brothers' chief lieutenants in the one area where their taste is as sharp as it is for bourbon: profits. By sticking with such high-quality, wide-profit-margin labels as Early Times and Jack Daniel's Old Time Tennessee Sour Mash Whiskey, the company has prospered even in an industry dominated by such behemoths as Seagram (1965 sales: $1 billion). With sales of $154 million...
...title was borrowed from the British army, whose Regimental Sergeants Major often command-and get-even more respect than do officers. When addressing a squad of newly commissioned officers, the R.S.M. has been known to counsel: "You will call me 'sir,' and 1 will call you 'sir.' But you will mean...
...Supreme Court may have handed down a hint of its own attitude in last month's Miranda v. Arizona decision, which affirmed the rights to silence and to counsel as soon as a person is "deprived of his freedom of action in any way." On the other hand, defenders of stop-and-frisk laws see the court leaning their "reasonable" way because it declared in 1963 (Ker v. California): "The states are not precluded from developing workable rules to meet the practical demands of effective criminal investigation and law enforcement in the states, provided that those rules...
This spring, Hughes stunned everybody by cashing in his chips-all 6,584,937 shares of TWA, for $546 million, six times his original $90 million investment. Still, Tillinghast has insisted that the suit against Hughes remain alive. "It's a corporate asset," says TWA's General Counsel Melvin Milligan...