Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stewart, Stickup Man Mi chael Vignera and Bank Robber Carl Westover. It was a decision that seemed to invite controversy, but Warren in sisted that the court was not offering any innovations. It was merely reaffirming any criminal defendant's basic constitutional right to the assistance of a lawyer and the freedom from any compulsion to testify against himself...
...partially to blame. "We dealt with certain phases of this problem recently," Warren said, "in Escobedo v. Illinois." In that case, the court overturned a murder rap against Danny Escobedo (TIME cover, April 29) because Chicago police had extracted a confession from him after denying him access to a lawyer he asked for-a lawyer who was also in the police station asking to see him. The generalities with which the court disposed of that specific problem, said Warren, had opened the way for "spirited legal debate." "Both state and federal courts," he reported ruefully, "have arrived at varying conclusions...
...right to have counsel present at the interrogation is indispensable to the protection of the Fifth Amendment privilege" to choose between silence and speech. Failure to ask for a lawyer does not waive the right to have one. An individual must be told of his right to counsel and reminded that the state will foot the bill if he is indigent...
Perhaps no one was more pleased than Chicago Lawyer Barry Kroll, who won the historic Escobedo case in the Supreme Court. "This decision means that the poor, uneducated and uninformed can now enjoy the rights that were previously only enjoyed by the wealthy and sophisticated," said Kroll. "The Escobedo case is now part of legal history. It will be looked upon as a real turning point in the administration of criminal law in this country...
...worn with only a body stocking. Amanda Burden, co-chairman or not, finally decided to take no chances-perhaps in honor of the fact that she has been named the Best Dressed Woman in America. "I do love the new things, but I think my husband [a fledgling lawyer] might object," she said. So she picked out a real Shakespearean number with long sleeves, high lace collar and floor-length hoop skirt from the festival's storage shop...