Word: jurist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hired Memphis Attorney Richard J. Ryan to seek to overturn the 99-year sentence Ray accepted last month in return for a guilty plea. Judge W. Preston Battle, 60, the tough jurist who sentenced Ray, was found dead of a heart attack last week. Judge Arthur Faquin, appointed to take charge of Ray's case, must now rule whether a letter found among Battle's files constitutes a valid petition by Ray for a new trial...
...existence of a conspiracy and because it confirms the significance and relevance of the planning which occurred in New Orleans." Defense Attorney F. Irvin Dymond immediately objected that "the actual assassination has no place in this case." He was quickly overruled by Judge Edward Haggerty, a raspy-voiced jurist who has displayed as much feel for sweep and pageantry as Garrison; he had introduced the jurors to the press by parading them around a motel swimming pool. Said Haggerty: "I can't tell the state how to run its case, if they want to overprove...
...some respects, Alabama under Wallace became a police state. The climate of order, even today, is such that the FBI has to stand constant guard on the home of Federal Judge Frank Johnson, a notably liberal jurist. Wallace's contempt for his own state's constitution was clear when he ran his wife for Governor, in clear violation of the spirit of a clause
With his prophetlike beard, clear eyes, ever-ready smile and imposing stature, this year's Nobel Peace Prizewinner really looks the part. René Cassin, 81, noted French jurist, was a chief architect of the United Nations' 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a document that defines the basic rights of all mankind. Pleased as he is with the prize and the progress that has been made in human rights, Cassin is still very much the judicial pragmatist. "Peace is still distant," he notes, "and much remains to be done. Men of good will do not exist everywhere...
What touched off the jurist's wrath was the behavior of Defense Attorney Arthur J. Hanes Sr. Hanes has not only talked to the press about the possibility of a Communist conspiracy in the King murder, but has also complained bitterly about the sheriff's unusually strict guard over Ray. Some of his protests were dutifully echoed by Defense Detective Renfro Hays. Like good courthouse reporters anywhere, Roy Hamilton of the Memphis Press-Scimitar and Charles Edmundson of the Memphis Commercial Appeal printed the complaints...