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Frank Morrissey's closest cronies would not claim that he is a learned jurist or even a seasoned trial lawyer...
...with an attorney in attendance. For the suspect without a lawyer, however, arrest and detention are the most crucial phases of his entire case. In the intimidating atmosphere of a station house, vigorous police grilling often takes on all the aspects of a star chamber. "The trial," observes one jurist, "is too often merely a review of that interrogation." Even if the defendant later recants a confession in court, it is one man's oath against those of three or four detectives. A distinguished federal judge said recently: "We'll never be fully civilized until we eliminate this...
...Justice. New York Court of Claims Judge Sidney Squire ruled that the case must go to trial nonetheless. "The novelty and lack of precedent for declaring that the baby bastard has a cause of action should not be a deterrent to such ruling," ruled Judge Squire, quoting the late jurist, Sir Percy Winfield: "If that were a valid objection, the common law would now be what it was in the Plantagenet period." The state's motion that the bastard's case, if tried and won, would leave the courts open to an endless array of claims Judge Squire...
Johnson, 46, is a tough-minded jurist and a native Alabamian who attended a state university with George Wallace. The two were once friendly, but have long since fallen out-mostly over civil rights. Wallace, in fact, once referred obliquely to Judge Johnson without actually naming him as an "integrating, scalawagging, carpetbagging liar...
...District Judge William Harold Cox, 63, is by every accounting a first-rate lawyer, a hard-working jurist-and a tried and true Mississippian (he roomed with Senator Eastland at Ole Miss) who, since his appointment by President Kennedy in 1961, has made a habit of deciding against the Federal Government in civil rights cases. Last week he did it again...