Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your fine article "Judging the Judges" [Aug. 20] was long overdue. Obviously, many lawyer-judges are unable to police themselves, and people outside the bar are needed to end the abuses. It seems the lawyers and lawyer-judges want to regulate and control everything and everyone except themselves. Earl Wheby Jr. Atlanta
Most of the Government's case rested on information provided by Jake Jacobsen, a Texas lawyer who was once an aide in the Johnson White House and who had long been Connally's friend. Jacobsen faced numerous charges of fraud and perjury. In plea bargaining, these charges were dropped; but he pleaded guilty to a single count of bribery and agreed to testify against Connally. He maintained that during a talk in Connally's office at the Treasury Department on April 28, 1971, Connally asked for money for himself in return for his help in persuading President...
...committing all six crimes." Ronald Clouser, 39, who closely resembles the priest despite a 14-year age difference, had already admitted committing three robberies in Pennsylvania. An industrial engineer, Clouser was on leave from his job with the U.S. Postal Service because of emotional problems. Clouser's lawyer stated that his client wanted to "exonerate Father Pagano of acts for which he was wrongly charged." Said Clouser: "Father Pagano has unjustly suffered for six months." He added: "I'm not a habitual confesser and I'm not a masochist. I just don't want...
...parties to a civil case have the option of waiving their right to a jury and trying the case before a judge. So why do many lawyers choose to try complex cases before a jury? "Usually it's because they think they have a weak case that they couldn't win before a judge," says New York Lawyer David Boies, who defended IBM in one of its many antitrust suits...
...with technical or business training is one way around the problem, though it would probably face constitutional challenges because such jurors are not randomly chosen from the population. A better solution in lengthy cases might be for judges to stop excusing anyone who wants to avoid jury duty. Many lawyers and judges alike are wary of doing away with juries altogether in big cases. Judges have their own biases; at least juries offer what Los Angeles Lawyer Maxwell M. Blecher calls "a bouillabaisse of public viewpoints." These are worth hearing in the antitrust area. Says Business School Professor Donald Vinson...