Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only a misdemeanor; DeJoseph tried to defend himself and went to jail for six months. By contrast, a Connecticut federal court recently freed another man who had been jailed for exactly the same offense, simply because the state failed to tell him that he had a right to a lawyer. Said Stewart: "When the meaning of a fundamental constitutional right depends on which court in Connecticut a person turns to for redress, I believe it is time for this court to intervene...
...Connecticut case, Stewart had a third supporter, Justice William O. Douglas. Will a fourth appear? Justice Abe Fortas, for example, is the very lawyer who won the Gideon decision in one of his great pre-bench coups. As court watchers see it, the silent justices are mainly fearful of the effects of carrying out Gideon's admitted logic. Most misdemeanor cases now take only a few minutes; to require lawyers might inflate them into regular trials. The country has not even begun to provide enough public defenders for accused felons; adding misdemeanor cases might overwhelm...
Furthermore, if you let a student appear before the Board, all sorts of complications arise. Should he be allowed to bring witnesses, a lawyer, a jury of peers, petitions, weeping mothers, and his constitutional rights? As one member of the Board put it, these suggestions become less and less far-fetched as the consequences of being thrown out of college become a certain ticket to the Army...
Eisenstadt, who is 30 years old and a lawyer, serves on the School Committee which is gradually being emasculated; it no longer controls its own budget and it no longer can pick school sites or construct school buildings. Most of its real power, like that of the City Council, has passed to the Mayor. Few people give serious attention to the members of the School Committee or the Council, primarily because they can do very little. Eisenstadt, to be sure, has a following but it exists only in his own neighborhood...
...Wiplash Willy, the shyster lawyer specializing in negligence cases, Matthau outdoes himself--and everyone else in the movie. Midway between Mosca and Louie Nizer, Wiplash Willy is a wonderful offense to the American legal process...