Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...confiscate the assets that such a person intends to use for his legal defense if the property was gained through criminal activity. Under the rulings, the assets may even be temporarily frozen before the defendant is tried or convicted. Such seizures do not violate the Sixth Amendment right to counsel, wrote Justice White, because an accused has no right "to spend another person's money for services rendered by an attorney, even if those funds are the only way that that defendant will be able to retain the attorney of his choice." Protested dissenting Justice Harry Blackmun: "It is unseemly...
...practice this kind of law anymore," said Scott Wallace of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Noted University of Michigan Law Professor Yale Kamisar: "The decisions will chill a lot of lawyers' interest in representing defendants in the very type of complex criminal cases where astute and experienced counsel are most needed...
...Have you no sense of decency, sir?" That was the question Army counsel Joseph Welch asked Joseph McCarthy 35 years ago when the Senator ruined the lives of those who did not agree with him by impugning their character and patriotism. The same question could be posed to Republican National Committee chairman Lee Atwater, his communications director Mark Goodin and Congressman Newt Gingrich...
...About 250 people protest the shuttle bus incident on Harvard Yard. Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 and Dean Epps apologize to the students and issue messages to Cambridge and Harvard police...
...officers of harassment, calling their action "professional and appropriate," and the question clearly became, appropriate for whom? For which race? For the 500 galvanized into protest that week, the answer was clear, as it was for Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III and University Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner, who apologized to the students and appealed to Cambridge and the police. But again, the police have not responded...