Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stood not for adultery but for abortion. Under an obscure state statute that allows only licensed physicians to perform abortions after the first trimester, Maria Pitchford was prosecuted for performing an abortion on herself during the 24th week of pregnancy. The penalty: ten to 20 years in jail...
...everyone is so determined. "People are afraid," says Robert Kaye, chief of the Florida State Attorney's Office Strike Force. "They ask themselves, 'Is the defendant going to get me when he gets out of jail?' " When the Institute for Law and Social Research asked witnesses in Washington, D.C., what they needed most, the largest single response was "better protection." Intimidation is not just limited to witnesses who squeal on the mob or run afoul of mad bombers. In suburbia, parents wonder what retribution is in store for them- or more worrisome, for their small children...
...mighty New York Times has been a melancholy place: its presses stopped by a strike, its newsroom empty; one of its reporters, Myron Farber, yo-yoing between jail cell and court hearings on contempt charges; the paper itself hit by a $100,000 fine for contempt and a $5,000-a-day fine for every day it continued to defy a New Jersey court in the same Farber case. To top it all off, in its legal difficulties, the Times seemed to be losing public support and press sympathy-partly because of "terrible coverage," says A.M. Rosenthal, the paper...
James Goodale, executive vice president of the Times for legal matters, points out that Nixon got a hearing before turning over his papers. And though U.S. Attorney Gen eral Griffin Bell was recently cited for contempt for protecting FBI sources, nobody put him in jail, like Farber, while the appeals went on. Yet a federal judge in New Jersey, refusing to release Farber and calling him "evil," ruled so intemperately that he didn't even get his facts straight. The Farber case seems to have this effect. He had "discovered" that Farber had a $75,000 advance...
...street-wise ex-con who got a law degree in jail and now defends the poor and downtrodden. His legal methods are pushy, his language rough, but you can be sure he gets results for his clients. Smartly enough, the series' creators have also provided the hero with a perfect foil: Patrick O'Neal as an elegant corporate lawyer who takes Kaz into his firm. Whenever it seems that Leibman might burn a hole in the tube, Old Pro O'Neal trots out to cool things down...