Word: craig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Francisco Attorney Melvin Belli is no admirer of the American Bar Association to which he belongs, or of its president, Walter E. Craig. Self-styled defender of unpopular causes, Belli has voluble and repetitive contempt for lawyers who prefer corporate problems to trial work, and as he sees it, Craig exemplifies the prosperous defenders of vested interests...
Belli has finally taken his case against Craig and his colleagues to court. What brought things to a head was his verbal exchange with the A.B.A. president after Jack Ruby's trial in Dallas last March. After the jury found Belli's client guilty of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, the King of Torts exploded in a torrent of comment on the judge, the jury and the city of Dallas. He charged that Ruby had been convicted by "the biggest kangaroo-court disgrace in the history of American law"; he called the verdict "a victory for bigotry...
Actually, the entire catastrophe probably could have been avoided early in the inning. With a man on first, Northeastern's Carrata batted a ball to Craig Bennet at second: the perfect double play situation. Unfortunately Bennett's throw glanced off the glove of shortstop Bobby Leo. Both runners were safe, and the horror show...
...Engel v. Vitale (1962), which struck down the use of a school prayer composed by the New York State Board of Regents. Despite the public furor, says Craig, "no other decision would have been consistent with the dictates of the First Amendment." Far from being hostile to religion, the court simply sustained the long-held U.S. belief that "a union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to degrade religion." >Gideon v. Wainwright (1963), which overturned a 1942 ruling that indigent defendants in state criminal trials are not necessarily entitled to court-appointed counsel. By its long-held...
...root cause of controversial decisions is not the Supreme Court," Craig concluded, "but the times in which we live and the critical issues they have engendered. Our Constitution becomes meaningless if it is not a constitution as interpreted by the court. This is what is meant by justice under the law. The Supreme Court has always been dominated by the quest for justice when faced with problems that are more important and more difficult than those that any other court in the history of the world has been asked to face...