Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drink or smoke, and I only chase one woman," says Harry Shuler Dent, and no one disputes the point. A South Carolina lawyer with brown-green eyes and an aw-shucks manner, Dent, 39, is a devout Baptist, a Sunday-school teacher, a lay preacher and the founder of the Senate staff prayer-breakfast group...
...Judd, "the Blonde Tigress," has escaped seven times from Arizona State Hospital. The last time was Oct. 8, 1962-and no one caught up with her until last month, when an alert California policeman checked the fingerprints of a housekeeper known as Marian Lane. Now Winnie, 64, has engaged Lawyer Melvin Belli, the flamboyant defender of Jack Ruby, to prove that she is a rehabilitated woman. He has only one reservation about taking the case: "When she called me, she wanted me to take care of her two poodles. But I told her I'm the king of torts...
...Gideon v. Wainwright (1963), which declared that a man accused of a felony has a right to free counsel if he cannot afford a lawyer. Gideon was not the first of the court's landmark decisions in criminal law. Mapp v. Ohio (1961) had announced the important principle that evidence seized in an illegal search may not be introduced at a man's trial. But Gideon was the first sign of the court's concern for protecting accused criminals who may not be able to defend themselves. It was followed by Escobedo v. Illinois (1964), which held...
...stern humanitarian ideals, he loomed on the bench as a kind of Old Testament lawgiver, who approached issues with a disarming simplicity. "You'd see this paterfamilias insisting on the justice of the black man's cause," noted Michael Meltsner, a young lawyer for the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund, who has argued before the Warren court. "Almost every question was directed toward justice, not technicalities...
...first his friends, then his readers, and finally his outlets. The turning point came when Pegler accused his onetime friend, Author-Journalist Quentin Reynolds, of "nuding along the public road" with "his wench, absolutely raw," and of bearing a "yellow streak." In the ensuing 1954 libel trial, Reynolds' lawyer, Louis Nizer, humiliated Pegler by reading him unidentified writings that Pegler dismissed as "the Communist line"-only to learn that they were his own prose from the 1930s. Reynolds won a $175,001 award, paid by Hearst...