Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Murphy, for example, called "essential to conviction" in 50% of the city's murders. And with no clarifying word from the Supreme Court, Escobedo has sharply divided lower courts across the country. Many take the "hard" line that a confession is inadmissible only if the suspect had a lawyer and was not allowed to consult him. By contrast, the California Supreme Court ruled last January that police failure to warn a suspect of his rights to silence and to counsel now voids his confession even though he makes no formal request for a lawyer. In May, the U.S. Court...
...define. As a result, the FBI, which gathers evidence for federal courts in which the Fifth unquestionably applies, routinely warns all suspects of their rights to silence and to counsel. On arrest, a federal prisoner must be arraigned forthwith before the neatest U.S. commissioner and supplied with a lawyer if he cannot afford one-all of which upholds the constitutional guarantee against serf-incrimination...
With the rise of the 35-hour week and four-week vacations, millionaires also detect tempting prospects in recreation. Among them: marinas and vacation homes. The growth of leisure and the youth market will also strengthen businesses involved with education, including secretarial schools and accounting schools. Oakland Lawyer Michael Rafton tapped that market: In 1960 he put up $31,000 to buy a struggling company that had been making big cargo boxes, switched it into the manufacture of portable classrooms, and last year sold out at a huge profit. The demand for time-saving conveniences can be turned into wealth...
...libel suit alleging that he had been falsely accused of murder by a flock of civil rights leaders, including Martin Luther King. Predictably, the defendants moved for dismissal on the ground that the Times doctrine stripped Gilligan of any cause for action. Predictably, Gilligan's lawyer, Roy M. Cohn, countered by claiming that the doctrine does not apply to a minor, nonelected government employee-that Gilligan was entitled to sue on the ground of falsehood without bearing the heavy burden of proving actual malice...
...Once, two and two made three around here. Now it makes six." So says Gordon Grand Jr., the lean tax lawyer who runs giant Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp. (1965 sales forecast: $875 million). Strange though such arithmetic may seem, it makes sense at Olin. Like many another manufacturing mammoth, the company overreached itself in a scramble to diversify a few years ago, found its profits dwindling as its debts increased. Olin is still pretty diversified-its 4,500 products include antifreeze, shotguns, rocket fuel, electric toothbrushes and paper for Bibles-but it has learned how to make its money stretch...