Word: courtroom
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Richmond Flowers, Attorney General of Alabama, has won northern praise and southern notoriety for his opposition to Alabama Governor George Wallace. Several weeks ago he was thrown out of a Lowndes County courtroom when he tried to take over the prosecution of Thomas L. Coleman, charged with killing a white civil rights worker. This week he was back in the same courtroom, this time handling the case against Collie Leroy Wilkins Jr., accused of murdering another white civil rights worker, Mrs. Viola G. Liuzzo...
...Patrick Dean, British Ambassador to the United States, and Lincoln Gordon, U.S. Ambassador to Brazil, will both speak at Harvard tonight. Sir Patrick will discuss "Britain and World Peace," at 8:30 p.m. in the Ames Courtroom of Austin Hall sponsored by the Law School Forum. Gordon will speak at 7:30 p.m. in the Dunster House Common Room on "American Foreign Policy in Latin America." Tickets for Sir Patrick's speech sell at the door or at the Coop...
Levine's notion that music and bodily movement could aid learning came from a curiosity about how people function in certain circumstances. "A good trial lawyer moves around in the courtroom to help himself think better," he says. "I think better when I move around. My 12-year-old son does a kind of dance when he explains something to me. There is a physical accompaniment to a mental process...
Seeing Two Sides. Even before he gets to the courtroom, the Solicitor General has the power to pass on every appeal brought by the U.S. Government at every level of the nation's court system. With his tiny staff of ten elite lawyers, the Solicitor General sifts almost ) possible Government appeals a year in every imaginable field. His approval is not given lightly. Unlike other lawyers, who are primarily advocates for only one side of a conflict, the Solicitor General serves the Supreme Court as well as the Government. He is less interested in victory than in whether...
...powerful iron-mining corporation. An idealistic, inexperienced young lawyer undertakes to sue for her inheritance and, incidentally, to establish her legitimacy. At the end squaw gets fortune and lawyer gets squaw. As a regional novel, Whitefish lacks flavor. As a character study it is inept. But as courtroom melodrama it makes intriguing legal legerdemain...