Word: gideons
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...probably along the heights above the Jordan Valley. Palestinians charge that the route cuts villages off from their fields and hems in some communities between the Israeli border and the fence, the gates of which are often shut for days. Any challenge to the fence angers Israeli government officials. Gideon Ezra, a cabinet minister, defends the soldiers. "They shot at [Naamati] because they thought he was a danger to Israel," Ezra says. But Prime Minister Sharon criticized the shooting in a cabinet session last week, arguing that the army should find a non-lethal means of handling protests. The fence...
DIED. FRED TURNER, 81, lawyer who successfully represented Clarence Earl Gideon after the Supreme Court overturned his earlier conviction, in a landmark 1963 case that established the right of every defendant in a criminal case to an attorney; in Panama City, Fla. Gideon, unable to afford an attorney, unsuccessfully defended himself and was convicted of breaking into a pool hall. In a new trial, Turner won Gideon's acquittal, proving the value of a public-defender system that has since become an essential part of our legal system...
...DIED. W. FRED TURNER, 81, attorney who successfully defended Clarence Earl Gideon, a Florida inmate whose 1963 Supreme Court case was a major test of the right to legal representation; in Panama City, Florida. Gideon had no lawyer during a trial in which he was found guilty of stealing change and cases of beer, wine and Coke from a pool hall. He filed his own appeal to the Supreme Court, which ruled that the poor must be provided free counsel in serious criminal cases. During the retrial, Turner undermined previous testimony and presented an alternative culprit, winning Gideon's release...
Legal experts agree that much--if not all--of the tragic and costly legal wrangling could have been avoided if Terri Schiavo had written a living will and named a health-care proxy. "There's no question about it," says New York City estate-planning attorney Gideon Rothschild. "The person she named [as her proxy] would have had exclusive rights to make health-care decisions...
...combination of Gideon Lester and Brighde Mullins’s playwriting classes, because Gideon taught about strict form and dramatic structure and Brighde helped bring out the creative ideas...