Word: lawyered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dirty Chinaman. The defendant's lawyer, Jacques Verges, the son of a French father and a Vietnamese mother, had his own problems. He was greeted with angry shouts of "Kill the dirty Chinaman!" When he protested an arbitrary ruling, the examining judge observed: "Doctors who care for rebels are arrested. It might be better to arrest lawyers who defend them." Verges was not allowed to make a final plea for his client. Djamila Bouhired, permitted a few words before sentence was passed, said: "The truth is that I love my country; I want to see it free...
...French, traditionally, are reluctant to guillotine women. But the guillotine is not the only way a person can die. Said her lawyer: "If pardoned by President Coty, Djamila Bouhired is likely to be sent to a prison camp in a barren region bordering on the Sahara, and there will be little trouble finding another 'medical expert' to testify that her death was due to 'natural causes...
Last week, after a 4½-day open hearing -in which she was defended by Lawyer Ray Jenkins (Army-McCarthy hearings) -Teacher Peters was cleared of any misconduct (and of the subsidiary charge of accepting trading stamps for good grades), told to use only language that was "characteristic of [her] profession...
...Smith snapped at a CAB counsel: "I don't know what you're talking about, and neither do you." When the record has accumulated, often to a height of five or six feet, the commissioners do not have time to read all or even most of it. Lawyers often take advantage of the commissioners' presence to draw out the hearings even further by making grandstand plays. Says one lawyer: "We have to impress them with the shock treatment. Our thoughtful arguments are not going to get detailed consideration anyway...
Died. Frederick M. Dearborn Jr., 46, Special Assistant to President Eisenhower for Security Operations Coordination, watchdog over the implementation of National Security Council decisions; of shock and acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis; in Washington. Educated at Harvard and a lieutenant colonel in World War II, Boston Lawyer Dearborn joined the White House Staff last...