Word: courts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lawyer from Harvard's Community Legal Assistance Office (CLAO) will defend the suspect in a crime involving Harvard-the attempted theft of the Gutenberg Bible from Widener Library. The trial begins Wednesday in Third District Court...
...arraignment last August 28, the court found Aras indigent and at CLAO's request appointed John B. Cratsley, a CLAO lawyer. to represent him. The court also committed Aras to a state mental hospital for observation...
...debris away. "Many of my people saw their houses blown away, but the insurance companies say this isn't so," says Chalin Perez, president of the Plaquemines police jury, the parish's governing body. Perez, a New Orleans attorney, is forming a community legal group to bring court action...
...exuberant traveler, Voltaire spent two happy years exiled in England, almost three as court intellectual in Prussia. And wherever he went, he tirelessly conducted his guerrilla warfare against royal and ecclesiastical superpower, not excluding the Church of England and, finally, his failed Philosopher-King Frederick...
...church. In 1762, he fought to exonerate the name of a Protestant shopkeeper named Jean Galas, who had been tortured and killed on the false charge of murdering his son to prevent the boy's conversion to Catholicism. But Voltaire's pattern in criticizing both church and court was to attack and then back off. Though he is generally credited with being the intellectual architect of the French Revolution, he was not inclined to be a martyr...