Word: crocketts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...racially tense Detroit, the incident might well have flared into a riot. Instead -at least so far-it has turned into a bitter debate over the conduct of Negro Judge George Crockett, 59, of the city's Recorder's Court. Wakened at 5 a.m. by the news of the mass arrests, Crockett hustled to police headquarters while the prisoners were still being processed. He moved into a small unused office, set up a makeshift courtroom, began reviewing each case. He ordered that 16 of the prisoners be let out on $100 bail and 22 be held, before Wayne...
...time of more formal proceedings later in the day, the police had finished their investigations-and Cahalan's office asked that all but twelve of the prisoners be released. Although most of the twelve had shown a positive result in the paraffin tests, Crockett held only two, one charged with possession of a tear-gas device, the other with assault with intent to kill. Neither was charged with shooting the two officers. There was also another aspect of the case. Crockett had told Cahalan to appear personally in court, and Cahalan had not. "It is my considered opinion," said...
...Vicarious Pleasure. To much of the press and public it appeared that Crockett had precipitously ordered wholesale releases and then gone out of his way to slap down the prosecutor. To Crockett, the angry protests were no surprise; he is not a stranger to controversy. A 1934 graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, he first caught the public eye when his freewheeling tactics as a defense attorney in the 1949 trial of eleven Communists earned him a four-month jail sentence for contempt of court. He continued to be active in civil libertarian causes, and was called...
...played Davy Crockett's sidekick...
WEST (Epic). West spent eight months rehearsing in a deserted theater in Crockett, Calif., before coming up with this album. The music they found there is warm, lyric and natural. Its sound is country-western flavored strongly with folk. Michael Stewart, the vocal backbone of the group, has written a fast-fingered guitar interview with Donald Duck that takes a poke at the Disney menagerie and a swing at President Johnson to boot: "Goofy has so much to say, he changed his place with L.B.J." Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues, the album's lead cut, shows what...