Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this point his experience differed sharply from that of Clarence Gideon. Patton was found guilty a second time. In pronouncing sentence, the trial judge said, "I would give you five more years than I am giving you, but I am allowing you credit for the time you have served. Judgment of the court is that the defendant be imprisoned for a term of 20 years...
...after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the conviction of Dr. Sam Sheppard because of the inflammatory press coverage of his trial, most newsmen scorned all suggestions that they abide by any formal set of rules laid down by courts or bar associations to govern crime reporting. Their own good judgment, they insisted almost unanimously, was all that was needed. Last week the jointly owned Toledo Blade and Toledo Times, which the Ohio Bar Association had commended for quiet coverage of the Sheppard trial, broke ranks and announced the adoption of a code of ethics. "If we're going...
...afforded to send a man; and that the foreign newsmen were under no obligation to write anything other than what they saw and felt. Pressing on, Fulbright & Co. pointed out that some U.S. newspapers have refused Pentagon offers of Viet Nam junkets. Wasn't this evidence of their judgment that such junkets are corrupting...
...full thrust of nationwide McCarthyism. Congressmen are scared to oppose the committee because they know such a move would cost them ten-fold the number of votes they might gain. The courts, while increasingly unwilling to convict uncooperative HUAC witnesses of contempt, are even less willing to pass judgment on HUAC constitutionality -- for fear that in so doing they would spur a major confrontation between Congress and the judiciary over the separation-of-powers issue...
Fiedler hurts from the raw places in contemporary life where the minority -Negro, Jew, social dissident or sexual deviate-is abraded by community judgment. In his latest book, which consists of three comic novellas, he laughs as he plays confident conjuring tricks with cards of racial identity...