Word: counselling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Interlopers." On Tuesday morning, while most of his fellow Justices were packing their vacation bags, Douglas had listened in his chambers to two sets of lawyers: the Rosenbergs' regular counsel, and a couple of earnest, frenetic newcomers to the case, Fyke Farmer of Nashville and Daniel Marshall of Los Angeles...
Both Farmer and Marshall got interested in the Rosenbergs through correspondence with a professional soapbox orator and left-wing pamphleteer, Irwin Edelman of Los Angeles. Technically hired as counsel by Edelman who claimed legal status as "next friend" of the Rosenbergs, the two lawyers developed a special argument. Its gist: the Rosenbergs were wrongly sentenced under the Espionage Act of 1917, which allows the judge to fix the death penalty; they should have been sentenced under the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, which provides the death penalty for atomic espionage only when a jury so recommends...
Fyke Farmer, far less pyrotechnical than Marshall, stuck safely to his argument that the Rosenbergs were sentenced under the wrong law. Chief Rosenberg Counsel Manny Bloch was needled by the bench for his belated urging of Farmer's new point of law. "I now adopt it as my own." he said, but he wanted at least a month to prepare adequate argument...
Wuchinich was violent and rattled during his appearance last week. When Counsel Robert Morris asked about his OSS work, he curled his lip. "I think I did more than you, counsel, for the defense of my country," he replied. "You may have a paratrooper haircut, but I don't believe you earned it. I have worn this haircut for ten years." Wuchinich proudly recounted his adventures as an American spy, but invoked the Fifth Amendment when the committee asked him if he had ever spied for the Communists. In answer to the query, "Do you consider yourself a true...
After six months of study and discussion, the U.S. Supreme Court could still not make up its mind about the legality of racial segregation in public schools (TIME, Dec. 22). In an unusual procedure, the court last week asked counsel for both sides (Negro organizations v. four Southern states and the District of Columbia) to reargue the pending cases next October. Further, the court invited the U.S. Attorney General to take part and listed specific questions which need more research and discussion. Among them...