Word: counsels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Neither can world protest be expected to effect any change in official Spanish policy toward the Basques. As in the case of the infamous Burgos trials of 1970, when sixteen Basques were sentenced--six received death sentences--after suspension of the right to counsel and the cancellation of court proceedings, the press covered the story, but then very quickly it became yesterday's news. There have been 71 executions of Basque patriots since 1970. A death the press did not make much of because it was not associated with any widely publicized political trial was that of 17-year...
...attempted assassination of President Ford in September, Lynette ("Squeaky") Fromme, 27, took one step deeper into trouble last week. As U.S. Attorney Dwayne Keyes began his opening statement to the jury of six men and six women in Sacramento, Fromme, who had decided to act as her own counsel, suddenly stood up and demanded the right to bring her mentor, convicted Murderer Charles Manson, into court as a witness. "Manson and our family are my own heartbeat," said she. "I can't go to trial unless they are allowed to speak. Lives will be lost. It's gonna...
Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, is working on a proposal to open up the last male-only awards to women, including the most lucrative and prestigious fellowships Harvard offers. He is treading on soft, uncertain ground, for he is approaching questions of institutional identity...
...counsel, Squeaky has accepted the need for a trained co-counsel, but she rejected Public Defender E. Richard Walker as a man with whom she had "no rapport." MacBride then assigned her to Virga. The judge has let her speak up at all pretrial hearings, so long as the two co-counsel do not speak up at once. To prepare her case, Squeaky has been virtually exempted from jailhouse routine. She is also entitled to have access to law books. Squeaky's studies have doubtless turned up a further advantage to acting as her own lawyer: she can decline...
...Common Defect. Most of the pilots' widows thought the problem was more fundamental, and 50 of them brought suit in 1971 against Lockheed, claiming that the planes had been improperly designed. Their counsel, flamboyant San Francisco Attorney Melvin Belli, had difficulty proving their case, however. "There wasn't a common defect to all the planes as we had thought," said a Belli associate last week. Nevertheless, it appeared that a few of the widows might win their cases, and Lockheed insurers agreed to settle out of court. The reparations totaled a modest $1.2 million, about half...