Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...William Scranton-who cannot succeed himself-in 1962. While Shapp is a wispy, almost Chaplinesque figure, Shafer, son of a Protestant minister, is a craggy-faced, sandy-haired, 6-ft. 2-in. ex-athlete who won nine letters at Allegheny College to go with his Phi Beta Kappa key. Lawyer Shafer is as taciturn as Tycoon Shapp is talkative. Shafer "comes on like Mount Rushmore," as one Pennsylvanian puts it, "and is about as animated...
...acquitted him of the charge of taking a bribe from a trucking company. Hoffa protests that the Justice Department's tampering evidence came from a "spy," planted among his entourage, who violated his right to counsel by attending some of Hoffa's conferences with his attorney. Hoffa Lawyer Z. T. Osborn Jr., who got 3½ years for tampering with another Hoffa jury, protests the Government's use of a recorder taped to the back of another "spy." On these cases hang not only the defendants' fate but also Government use of informers and electronic eavesdropping...
...York award under a privacy law that may sometimes make even honestly erring news reports actionable if the subject did not consent to the story and the publisher's "sole" aim was to boost circulation. Al though the case was argued last term, with Lawyer Richard Nixon appearing for Hill, the Supreme Court took the unusual step of ordering reargument next week before issuing a decision...
...Many lawyers, on the other hand, hail pretrial silence as a promising antidote to jury prejudice-and they say that the A.B.A. proposals offer no threat to freedom of the press. "Reporters might get out and do some digging instead of running over to the D.A.'s office for a handout," says Manhattan Lawyer Robert Kasanoff. The whole point is to focus trials in courtrooms rather than newspapers, declares Richmond's Lewis F. Powell Jr., former president of the A.B.A. The result would fortify the A.B.A.'s canons of ethics, which have condemned pretrial talk by lawyers...
Most editors are convinced that jurors rarely recall pretrial publicity, since trials usually occur long after arrest. As for the trial itself, Houston's canny Criminal Lawyer Percy Foreman is all for complete trial (though not pretrial) publicity on the ground that news slanted against his client is sure to rouse jury sympathy. Foreman even favors televised trials: "The accused has a constitutional right to have the breaks on public opinion," he says. Atlanta Criminal Lawyer Pierre Howard argues that trial judges are already fully empowered to safeguard trials, for example, by granting changes of venue. "If a judge...