Word: counsels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moses said official approval of the plan hinges on the issue of how the plan would relate to existing advising programs, such as the Freshman Task Force and the Bureau of Study Counsel...
Last year, when Powell provided the deciding vote in a 5-to-4 ruling upholding suspects' rights to legal counsel while being questioned by police, he was rebuked from the bench by Chief Justice Warren Burger. Burger waspishly declared that with "only one convert" the court might some day restore "rationality" by voting the other...
...custody of these documents for deposition." TIME Correspondent Gregory H. Wierzynski reports that "those close to the suit say it is either a case of potentially explosive material that the White House wants to hide or extreme bungling by the Administration's legal staff." Replied White House Deputy Counsel Margaret McKenna: "There's nothing sinister about this. It's all probably very simple bureaucratic confusion...
...Francesco Coco was gunned down. One of the defendants announced in court that the murder was committed by brigatisti, and the trial was postponed. Then, shortly before the court was to convene again a year later, Fulvio Croce, president of the Turin Bar Association and newly appointed chief defense counsel, was murdered. Once again, the trial was postponed. Finally, last March the proceedings resumed. Despite yet another murder, of a police inspector who had helped apprehend one of the defendants, Judge Guido Barbaro vowed that the trial would...
Throughout the trial, the 15 defendants in custody (26 were free on their own recognizance, five are still at large), kept up an emotional tirade against the judge, the jury and their own defense counsel. But when Judge Barbaro read the verdict, as more than 800 carabinieri and other police ringed the courthouse, the defendants were absent from the steel-barred cage in which they had been kept during the proceedings. They had all elected to remain in their cells as a protest against what they called a "court of the regime...