Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sure hope that if I decide to rob a bank, I make off with enough cash to afford a lawyer like F. Lee Bailey...
...jury one day last week, Judge Oliver J. Carter summed up the essence of Patty Hearst's trial: whether or not the celebrated defendant was telling the truth. "You and you alone," he told the jurors, "have to make this ultimate decision and no psychiatrist, no lawyer or anybody else should invade that province...
...through the top state court. Complains Northwestern Law Professor Fred Inbau: "The right of one federal judge to overrule five or seven state supreme court justices is just nonsensical. We have to call a halt to it." At last week's arguments before the Supreme Court, one lawyer for Convict Rice tried to counter that view; he argued that the "state courts' primary allegiance is to guarantee enforcement of the state's criminal law, while the federal courts' is to preserve constitutional guarantees." Justice Potter Stewart disagreed sharply: "That may have been true in some areas...
After posting bond, Monette returned to her parents' home in River Ridge, La., where she is now awaiting a removal hearing. Her lawyer says it has been re-scheduled three times because he has "other cases to attend to." He says it has not yet been determined whether the trial (if there is one) will be held in Boston or New Orleans, but she says an arraignment should come soon. Monette's mother will say only that her daughter doesn't wish "to discuss the matter...
...separate unit, so let's get to it!"--Daniel Steiner, the University's general counsel, sits inside coordinating Harvard's predictably airtight legal defense. As workmen paste up a billboard near the Medical Area calling on President Bok to relent, Thomas L.P. O'Donnell, a Ropes and Gray labor lawyer whom Ed Powers, director of employee relations, calls "one of the best in the business" is drafting briefs that will certainly give District 65 a run for its money...