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...murderers with court-appointed lawyers were sentenced to death, against about a third of those represented by private attorneys. Amsterdam, who has argued eight capital cases before the Supreme Court, contends that "great lawyering at the right time would save virtually everybody who is going to be executed." Scharlette Holdman, director of Florida's Clearinghouse on Criminal Justice, persuades volunteer lawyers to represent death-row inmates. "Every person sentenced to die comes from a case fraught with errors," she says. "If you're adequately represented you don't get death. It's that simple...
Aside from public defenders, there are only about a dozen attorneys working full time on behalf of the condemned. Court-appointed lawyers in most states are not required to stay on a murderer's case after a conviction. "Drunk lawyers, lazy lawyers, incompetent lawyers, no lawyers," says Holdman. "You can have all the correct issues for appeal, but if you don't have a good lawyer to raise them, they don't mean a damn thing." Of 2,000 death sentences imposed during the post-Furman decade, about half have been reversed or vacated by the courts...
...University team is facing its two stern opponents with confidence, Coach Wachter said yesterday afternoon. The C. C. N. Y. team has been practising all fall, and has already played several matches. Their head-coach, Don Holdman, is an old teammate of Wachter's and teaches the same system of five-man offence. Technically, therefore, the game promises to be close. This will be Harvard's first game with the City College of New York...
...Lawrence will have keen competition in the high-jump with Canfield of Yale, Burdick of Pennsylvania and Palmer of Dartmouth all good for better than six feet. Barr may get a fourth in the pole-vault, the other three places going to Nelson and Gardner of Yale and Holdman of Dartmouth. Goddard may place in the shotput, though there again there will be keen competition. There is no chance in the hammer-throw for Hodges. Long has a show in the broad jump, which will probably be won by Roberts of Amherst
...Pole-vault. Harvard: J. L. Barr '10, O. M. Chadwick '11, W. A. Dennis '11, S. S. Kent '10, J. A. King '12, S. C. Lawrence, 2d, '10, R. Murray '12, L. C. Torrey '12, J. B. E. Wheeler '10. Dartmouth: O. E. Holdman, G. H. Jenks, G. C. Lewis...