Word: jurist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Judge Hoffman missed by more than a quarter-century being the first Chicago jurist to bear the label "Julius the Just" [Feb. 9]. During a seminar held at Northwestern University Law School in 1945, the late distinguished Judge Julius Miner was asked whether he was aware that he was frequently referred to as "Julius the Just." With characteristic wit he replied immediately: "Yes, but I think of myself as just Julius...
...more aware of the contrast between judicial precaution and penal carelessness than Chief Justice Warren Burger. Some find Burger's vehemence on the subject rather odd; he is often seen as a strict law-and-order jurist whom President Nixon appointed to lead the nation's highest bench away from the liberalism of the Warren court. In fact, Burger is a vocal advocate of reforming the penal system to stress rehabilitation rather than revenge. Last week he reaffirmed his concern with prison reform in two tough speeches-to the Association of the Bar of the City...
...loquacious testimony of a defense witness who did testify last week sparked a rare flash of Hoffman humor. "You're too high-priced a writer to give us all that detail for free," the jurist told high-priced Writer Norman Mailer. The amateur boxer and ring buff later summed up Hoffman as a verbal sparring partner: "A fast-moving featherweight who never gets his left out of your face. But he'd never knock anybody...