Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under the code, a defendent, detained for questioning, would be warned of his constitutional right to remain silent if he has no lawyer. It would also limit the time that an individual may be questioned without a lawyer to four hours...
...questioning period would have to be tape recorded, and coercive practices on the part of the police would be prohibited. The defendent could not be kept from seeing his lawyer, but would be free to confess without council if he wished...
...Lawford, 41, had decided on a legal separation after eleven years of marriage. The only split was "geographical," he said, "since my work in movies is in Hollywood" and Pat remained in Manhattan to look after their four children. Now the geography has changed. In Manhattan, Peter's lawyer announced an "amicable separation," and since Pat was in Sun Valley, Idaho, for the skiing, friends thought she might just stay there for six weeks and get the divorce...
...Defense Lawyer Richard Weinstein exploded: "These people have been exposed to extraordinary destruction of their lives." It was "unconscionable," he said, "to leave them to the tender mercies of the Darien police department and now come into court and say we have no evidence against them...
...made the Press a less hectic, haphazard operation. He halved the number of editions from 16 to eight, taught reporters how to compress their coverage. He cut down on violence and crime stories, hired specialists so that a "reporter would not have to be a doctor one hour, a lawyer the next, and an engineer the following." And he never stopped making changes. Only three months ago he cut the front page from eight to five columns and put in more white space for easier reading. "This newspaper does not stand still," he said. "It's in a continual...