Word: jurists
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DIED. Edward Russell, 85, British military jurist and author who prosecuted all war crimes trials in the British zone of Germany after World War II, and resigned as assistant judge advocate general in 1954 in order to publish his controversial book The Scourge of the Swastika, in which he condemned Nazi atrocities as an outgrowth of the master-race doctrine; in Hastings, England...
...private jurist program resembles arbitration, a widely used procedure that calls on a non-judge to resolve disputes typically involving labor contracts. But the California procedure has some features that arbitration does not. Examples: the judge must adhere to regular procedural and substantive aspects of law, and decisions can be appealed...
Last week the real jurist decided his course of action. At least indirectly, Federal District Court Judge Walter Jay Skinner had encouraged the idea. After handing down the tough sentence last fall, he had promised Krutschewski's lawyers that he would consider any sensible alternative sentence stripping the veteran of his tainted wealth. But the defense proposal failed to satisfy Skinner. In a 13-page decision, he concluded that the payment, large as it might be, would not be a great enough deterrent to stop the smuggling along the New England coast. Skinner also worried about the scheme...
...nation's top jurist, Chief Justice Warren Burger, warned last month about the "reign of terror in American cities" and bitingly asked: "Are we not hostages within the borders of our own selfstyled, enlightened, civilized country?" Some criminologists answer that the fear of becoming a victim of crime is greater than the actual risk, but no one denies that the fear is real. Proclaimed the Figgie Report, a privately funded study of crime in the U.S.: "The fear of crime is slowly paralyzing American society." Observes Houston Police Chief B.K. Johnson: "We have allowed ourselves to degenerate to the point...
...William Clark, is a Republican loyalist from California who worked for Reagan when he was Governor and was eventually elevated by Reagan to the state supreme court. Clark is worried lest his departure from the California court leave a vacancy that Governor Jerry Brown might fill with a liberal jurist, further tipping the court's balance toward the left. For Deputy Treasury Secretary, Reagan's more conservative supporters are urging the appointment of New York Drug Store Magnate Lewis Lehrman, an outspoken proponent of a return to the gold standard. But Donald Regan, the designated Treasury Secretary, reportedly...