Word: jurist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good jurist, not a balanced judge and. if you had to select him, the least you could have done was to label him "Chief Prosecutor...
Modest and unimposing in speech and stature out of court, the 5-ft. 6-in. jurist towered and glowered from his bench, openly indignant at what he considered evasions and deceptions in testimony before him. He simply did not believe that the seven lowly burglars who had wiretapped Democratic National Committee headquarters at Washington's Watergate complex in June 1972 were a self-starting team working alone. Injudicially, some have argued, but undeniably in the higher national interest, as others would insist, he applied pressure until he got a scandal-bursting response. Once James W. McCord Jr. began...
...during the latest trial, Davis occasionally folded himself into the lotus position in the courtroom. David Dellinger, 58, the elder of the original Seven, has been ill, most recently with gall bladder trouble. And in place of the choleric Judge Hoffman, there was Judge Edward Gignoux, a calm, amiable jurist imported from Maine. After Gignoux found Dellinger guilty (there was no jury), the defendant said: "You blew this one, but at least it was possible to have a dialogue. You have proved that a judge can be decent, a judge can be honorable, a judge can be polite...
Since the March 1970 Resolution was adopted, the CRR has operated without student representatives. Students brought before the CRR faced faculty members--not their peers--and a process of justice that would shock the most conservative jurist...
Frankel was moved by the general legal maxim for all-risk insurance: whatever is not clearly excluded is covered. Still, as the jurist wryly admitted, "judges are commissioned to be fallible." Especially in $24,288,759 cases. The guerrilla army of lawyers, who by now have charged an estimated $1,000,000 in fees, have already begun sorting through Frankel's 128 pages of opinion and 56 footnotes as they prepare to fight anew in the appeals court...