Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decision that is still reverberating through the courts. In 1962, the Supreme Court picked him to appeal the celebrated Gideon case; he argued brilliantly and induced the court to rule that any citizen, no matter how humble he was, or how guilty he seemed, had the right to legal counsel, even if the state...
...Friendship. The sinews of friendship between Abe Fortas and Lyndon Johnson are about as deep and strong as possible. In 1948, when Johnson's election to the U.S. Senate was challenged, it was Fortas who acted as his counsel and held the seat despite charges that the 87 votes by which Johnson won the primary were stolen from the opposition. When Johnson became President, one of the first men he called to his side was Fortas. The new President consulted Fortas on appointments, departmental problems, national and international policy, and the creation of the Warren Commission to investigate...
...earnestly repent." The churches also encourage troubled souls to seek the counsel of their pastors in private...
...made out to a San Francisco real estate salesman named Frank H. Graves Jr. Soon after Graves cashed them, police asked him to demonstrate his handwriting. Then he was arrested for forging all three checks in the names of fictitious persons. He was not advised of his rights to counsel and silence; nor was he told of his rights later when the police requested nine more samples of his writing-the clinching evidence that convicted...
Until last fall, Graves's conviction would have stood like Gibraltar. But in Escobedo v. Illinois, the Supreme Court ruled that the right to counsel begins when police shift from investigation to accusation. And in People v. Dorado, which the Supreme Court recently refused to review, California's highest state court went even further. It ruled that police failure to advise a suspect of his rights to counsel and silence invalidates his confession even if he does not ask for a lawyer...