Word: lawyer
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Wendt's defense was led by Lawyer and Lay Theologian William Stringfellow, who harbored Daniel Berrigan in 1970 when the Jesuit was a fugitive from the FBI. Stringfellow was interested in pursuing what he felt was a vindicating factor in Wendt's action-the validity of the women's ordinations. The national head of the church, Presiding Bishop John M. Allin, who was subpoenaed for the defense, refused to appear; as a result, at week's end he was cited for contempt by the five-judge ecclesiastical court. That left as the star witness his predecessor...
...revealed about Chief Justice Vassar B. Carlton's sudden resignation in January 1974, though he was then under investigation by the state's judicial qualifications committee. A second resignation involves a proposed opinion in a utilities case; the opinion was prepared by one of the companies' lawyers. Justice Joseph Boyd says that the draft opinion just turned up in his house after a visit by the lawyer. A copy also went to Justice Hal P. Dekle, who used it in writing a preliminary majority opinion that favored the utilities; the opinion was never issued. A court-appointed...
Frank Mankiewicz is a journalist and lawyer-as well as former campaign manager for George McGovern-and he makes an insistent point: it was not the press that brought Nixon down, but the law-respect for it and for the kind of step-by-step preparation and pursuit that due process requires. Mankiewicz is especially sharp at pointing out the lies and equivocations of Nixon's TV statements and press conferences...
...early 1973, well before the Ervin committee hearings, O'Neill told Speaker Carl Albert to prepare for impeachment proceedings. "Not being a lawyer...
...protecting the presidency a self-serving fraud? Breslin, perhaps unfairly, contends that Texan Charles Alan Wright, Nixon's constitutional expert, simply learned too late that "when the client is a liar and you believe him, he takes you down with him." Osborne doubts that Nixon's third lawyer, St. Clair, was ever as naive about the President's guilt as he seemed. White, quoting another Nixon lawyer, Leonard Garment, offers the most plausible clue. "There was this wishful non-knowingness," Garment recalled. "We didn't want to get together and put all the pieces together...