Word: gipson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...RUNNING BACKS: O. J. Simpson, Southern Cal, 6 ft. 2 in., 210 Ibs.; and Paul Gipson, Houston, 6 ft., 205 Ibs. The scouts are calling 1968 the Year of the Running Back. Reason No. 1 is Heisman Trophy Winner Simpson, everybody's All-Everything. The pros liken his bulling power, his marvelous moves and his explosive speed to a cross between Jim Brown and Gale Sayers. That means, as one scout says, that "he is the greatest college runner in 10-20-50 years-unbelievable!" Noting that OJ. ran the ball an average of 35 times a game this...
Stephens was understandably irritated over this treatment, especially when police refused his own brother permission to see him. His irritation raised a little-understood legal issue: What are the rights of a material witness? He got in touch with a pair of Memphis attorneys, Harvey Gipson, 37, and Jay Fred Friedman, 33, who pored over the laws of not only Tennessee but other states for precedents. While most states permit the jailing of witnesses, the attorneys found, the laws have been applied only in extreme circumstances-when there is clearly no other way to guarantee a witness's appearance...
...testifying and had been declared in contempt of court. By contrast, Stephens had been a cooperative witness. His lawyers argued that there was no reason to believe that he would not testify; there had been no actual threats on his life. Taking the case to a Memphis Circuit Court, Gipson and Friedman won a plea for a writ of habeas corpus on the grounds that Stephens had been denied due process and that his bail was excessive...
Last week Stephens was free and living in a small, police-protected apartment somewhere in Memphis. Pleased by their success, Gipson and Friedman maintained that their exhaustive research showed that laws regulating witnesses' rights could stand improvement in many states. The more enlightened laws, they pointed out, allow written depositions from witnesses as evidence, provided that the right of cross-examination and other trial guarantees are preserved. At least in many cases, the state thus avoids having to confine the bodies of witnesses to assure the presence of their words in court...
...javelin, Princeton football player Hayward Gipson and Harvard sophomore Henry Bernsen have both thrown over 200-feet. But Bernsen has yet to hit that mark this year, while Gipson threw 204 ft. last week...