Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...child, she watched her parents hauled off repeatedly to jail by India's British rulers, whiled away her loneliness by teaching her dolls to emulate Gandhi's principles of civil disobedience. "All my games were political," she recalls. Defying her father, she married an obscure Parsi lawyer named Feroze Gandhi (no kin to the Mahatma), later was jailed with him for 13 months on charges of subversion. After bearing two sons, she left her husband in 1947 and returned to her father's rambling mansion in New Delhi...
...recent years the U.S. Supreme Court has intervened with a vengeance. Predictably, California is a bright exception. Often in far-reaching opinions by Traynor, the California court has been among the first to modernize the legal definition of criminal insanity (1953), to hold that an indigent whose court-appointed lawyer has botched his job is entitled to a new trial (1963), to ring new safeguards around the use of co-defendant confessions at joint trials (1965), and to defy the odd Supreme Court rule that police may not seize "mere" evidence, such as incriminating letters, unless it is also...
...Essential. In the same pioneering vein, Traynor suggested in 1961 that a suspect is entitled to a lawyer as soon as the police are prepared to charge him. In 1964 the Supreme Court followed that path in Escobedo v. Illinois, the case that police now fear will eliminate all confessions. Indeed, California's Justice Mathew Tobriner amplified Escobedo last January by holding for the court in People v. Dorado that police failure to advise a suspect of his rights to counsel and to silence voids his confession, even though he may not have asked for a lawyer. Last spring...
Innocent Mind. What makes all this a current cause célèbre in assorted law reviews is the fact that statutory rape is a rare anomaly in U.S. law. In most crimes, notes Omaha Lawyer Larry W. Myers in the Michigan Law Review, the prosecution must prove mens rea (the guilty mind), an ancient concept that includes criminal intent. Not so for statutory rape. An American may beat the rap by proving that he didn't do it, proving that the girl was of age-or (in Virginia) marrying her. In most cases, though, a claim that...
...average ignorant, criminal. Dershowitz said, does not know enough to keep silent when he is faced with persistent questioning by the police. The proposed code does any that within the four hour period, "persistent questioning" must cease if the accused wishes to see a lawyer, but Dershowitz pointed out that lawyers are not always available...