Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ford passed her sanity tests last week. Squeaky Fromme, the Charles Manson family follower who is being held in the Sacramento County Jail, was adjudged mentally competent to stand trial, set to begin Nov. 4. Federal Judge Thomas J. MacBride ruled that she can act as her own lawyer, as she wishes, working with Public Defender E. Richard Walker. Referring to some of the extraneous issues Squeaky had cited as vaguely behind her decision to flash a revolver from out of a Sacramento crowd, the judge said he would bar any "ecology statements on how bad things...
...anyone using a gun to commit a felony. Said Brown: "By signing this bill, I want to send a clear message to every person in this state that using a gun in the commission of a serious crime means a stiff prison sentence. Whatever the circumstances, however eloquent the lawyer, judges will no longer have the discretion to grant probation even to first offenders. The philosophy of this bill is based not on sociology or Freudian theory but on simple justice...
...Attorney James Browning argued that there is nothing illegal about recording conversations in jail between defendants and their visitors, provided that they are not talks between client and lawyer. In Washington, Justice Department officials backed up Browning, maintaining that the normal restrictions against the invasion of privacy or bugging do not operate within a prison. Officers at the San Mateo County jail, where Patty was being held, said they had warned her lawyers that her conversations might be recorded, but Patty claimed that she had not got the word. As the proceedings go on, her lawyers are expected to press...
Vitally Important. Sounding scarcely different from the most critical Senators, Huston, now an Indianapolis lawyer, said, "It seems to me that these [intelligence] agencies operate in a world of their own. They are not accountable to anyone. The problem is that you must give these agencies enough independence to protect our liberties and yet still hold them accountable to higher authority...
...shortly after 4 a.m. The scene was the office of Alonso's defense lawyer, a modest hut in the Madrid suburb of Vallecas. "There is no hope," sighed the lawyer, his eyes red with fatigue. He turned to a telephone and dialed the number of an undertaker in the old Castille village of Hoyo de Manzanares, 18 miles north of Madrid. "Can you take care of a death?" the lawyer asked. "Where is the body?" the undertaker asked. "Haven't you been listening to the radio and television?" the lawyer insisted. "We don't handle these cases...