Word: districts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also universally known that in the changing political climate of the South, virtually no Congressman is safe from challenge in his home district. Thus last week Judge Smith, bent and slightly hard of hearing at 83, was forced to campaign for the Democratic nomination in the July 12 primary. Always a candidate but rarely a combatant, he has not had to hustle for primary votes since 1938, when F.D.R. set out to "purge" the balky conservative. Smith won that contest...
...well past his 50s. But Barzel had long since established himself as a comer. He joined the Neues Deutschland young Catholic movement while still a law student at the University of Cologne, and by the time he was elected to the Bundestag from a heavily Catholic Rhineland district in 1957, was already spokesman for an influential group of young Catholic laymen...
...pitch usually goes like this: "The district attorney has you dead to rights. But if you plead guilty to a lesser charge and save the state the time and expense of a trial, I will let you off with a light sentence." The offer comes from a judge. The second party to the bargain is a nervous defendant accused of a crime, almost certain to be convicted, and tempted to "cop a plea." The prac tice is one of long standing. And it has advantages for the public as well as the accused: it clears crowded dockets and sometimes extracts...
Last week Federal Judge Edward Weinfeld of New York's Southern District answered firmly that judges have no business getting mixed up in such deals. A 65-year-old jurist with a reputation for working long hours and never ducking the tough cases, Weinfeld insisted that the bargain deprives a defendant of his rights without due process, impairs a judge's objectivity, makes a sham of the guilty plea and "has no place in a system of justice...
...headline in the University of Oregon's student newspaper said STU DENTS CONDONE MARIJUANA USE. But when the district attorney asked Daily Emerald Managing Editor Annette Buchanan just who the students in her story were, she refused to say. It was not that Annette did not know. She simply thought that the right to silence was part of the freedom of the press. And last week she said she would stick by that right, come law or high water...