Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even as a teenager, Terence Hallinan was quite a handful. Perhaps he got it from his father, Vincent Hallinan, the fiery San Francisco lawyer who has served at least three jail sentences, including one for contempt (arising from his defense of Harry Bridges) during which he ran for President on the 1952 Progressive Party ticket. Perhaps it all started with a beating that three Marines once gave one of his brothers because he opposed the Korean War. When that happened, Vincent gave his sons boxing lessons. "If you're going to hold radical opinions," he said, "you have...
Keeping Cool. Did all this bar Terence, now 30, from becoming a practicing lawyer? Yes, said the California Committee of Bar Examiners, citing Terence's "propensity for lawlessness." As the committee saw it, Terence lacked that vital lawyer's virtue-"good moral character...
...When Lawyer Sheller, 59, was tried on tax-evasion charges a year ago, his psychiatrist testified that he was "suffering from a psychotic reactive depression" when he reported only $9,000 of his $43,000 income in 1959. In his instructions to the jury, the judge omitted insanity as a defense. New York federal judges then used the old M'Naghten test that a man is legally in sane only if he "did not know right from wrong", or did not understand the nature of his acts at the time of his crime. A supplement...
Where this can lead is clear from the case of Lawyer Driscoll, 39, one of Roy Cohn's law partners, who was tried last month for having "willfully failed" to file any federal tax returns for three years in which he grossed...
...fighting a possible three-year sentence, Driscoll pleaded Freeman insanity. Though not psychotic, testified his psychiatrist, the lawyer had "morbid depressions" that inhibited him from finishing important work. Driscoll's defense also brought forward 15 impressive character witnesses, including Louis Nichols, the FBI's ex-No. 2 man and now executive vice president of Schenley Industries. They all testified to his good reputation. Driscoll got a hung jury: six jurors voted to convict, six to acquit for insanity. So he, too, may be retried...